I wouldn't say it that way, although I agree with the sentiment. Wipe "what" out--the Trust Fund? The way I look at it, the disability and illegal claims just increase the amount of cash given away, which increases taxes on the productive. Whether it is booked as driving down the Trust Fund (and it will be to justify more SS taxes, mostly in the form of lifting the salary cap), is irrelevant to the budgetary health of the country. More money will be spent (and the things you mention are money that shouldn't be spent).
Maybe I'm just arguing about words here; as it seems to me we mean the same thing.
Yep. Just more unsustainable debt.
Of course, there is that one little pesky problem.
Compute Social Security with the disability rules that were in place in 1990, and see how much smaller the problem becomes.
In the 1990s, the ‘bent one’ with the willing assistance of a nit-wit congress, “ended welfare.” Actually, all he did was take the cancer called welfare and infect numerous other programs with it. None took as significant hit as Social Security did with the ‘new’ disability rules (ie, take worthless cancers off welfare, call them ‘disabled’ and bury the cost in Social Security).
And I have an absolutely simple solution (which will also put proper definition to the word ‘entitlement’). Every social security benefit is reduced by 90%. You get a 3% increase for every year YOU PAID INTO SOCIAL SECURITY. When the people that ACTUALLY paid into Social Security are the people that actually receive Social Security, the problem will virtually disappear.
When refugees bring over grand ma and grandpa, they are immediately signed up for ss.