This kind of rhetoric seems like an equation for losing elections to me. The GOP needs to be emphasizing that benefits are guaranteed for current retirees and older workers.
This plays right into Hillary's game plan of scaring the elderly so much so that they're ready to jump in front of a moving train for her.
You can't will your social security money to someone who is not your spouse (even if you live with an elderly sibling).
If you die before retirement, that money is not "yours".
Short of it is that money is not yours.
I still want to know who will pay the 12.8 Trillion regardless of what happens.
1/2 the seniors are going to vote Republican in spite of the scare tactics. Yes, you have to educate that any change would be on a volunteer basis, but you need to educate the younger voter. This should be a prime issue for winning GOP votes in the 20-30 something crowd.
"The GOP needs to be emphasizing that benefits are guaranteed for current retirees and older workers.
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They are? Maybe by politics, but certainly not by law.
Attacking Social Security will only result in a tax hike. No one; not even the guy who kicked in a few bucks during a summer job in high school is going to accept being ripped off. The truth is that we have a choice to make. Either Social Security is a real program; or, we must admit that we have a regressive income tax structure where those on the lower end face a top rate in excess of 50%. That admission is only going to lead to one thing; and the "private account" B.S.(what is private about a public program?) is not what I am talking about. The logical result is to apply the tax to all income - it is after all just a tax - totally disconnected from benefits, or any specific government program.