[need_a_screen_name]

" And where do you propose to get the money to do that?"



The same place it would be coming from if we didn't means test.

[big gray tabby]

Your suggestion's a non-starter. Workers contributing now won't get interest on their money from the system. Only those greedy old folks collecting now will get anything more than a return of their money without interest. But will they give up a freaking dime of it or will they scream bloody murder at the most insignificant changes?

Read the thread. It's shocking a discussion like this takes place at arguably the most conservative website in the country.

[DSH]

The same place it would be coming from if we didn't means test.

I don't think I follow. The benefits being paid to current recipients are derived from the Social Security payroll tax payments currently being paid by those working. I understand what you to be proposing is that "well off" people should "get back" an amount equivalent to the Social Security payroll tax payments they have made to date over the course of their working years. Again, where is that money going to come from?