Koch Brothers don’t like Social Security, and they find Cato, so no surprise
As long as conservatives keep bashing Social Security, Dems will keep using that against them in elections. It really isn’t worth fighting a program that has existed for eight decades and is relied on by tens of millions. Unless you like losing elections. That’s why Trump told candidates to stop badmouthing Social Security.
The facts speak for themselves. Equity investing is the single best vehicle for growing wealth in the USA, period. Better than gold, land, or anything else.
As far as whether or not I’m “for” SS is not germane to aria’s question. I’m drawing SS, as is mrs. abb. Neither of us had any choice in the matter on whether to pay SS taxes, as we worked for wages in the private sector.
And yes, it will be with us for the foreseeable future.
Consider FDR’s quote when it was enacted. “With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program. Those taxes aren’t a matter of economics, they’re straight politics.”