Great. So I should settle for similar treatment, then? Or am I supposed to wait until you die, so I can make the same demand of someone else down the road? I'm going to get screwed out of several years worth of SS taxes as of right now, and if they keep raising the retirement age,my hubby will get screwed out of more money than you probably will. But that's okay, so long as you get yours?
The whole thing is unfair, and needs to be scrapped. I'm not gonna sit there and take it just because you got ripped off, too. Any solution is going to make someone unhappy, but let's get real here. You wouldn't get everything back, and neither would younger folks than you. It's no excuse to keep throwing good money after bad.
My point is that whatever the solution is, it needs to be fair to everyone, including younger workers.
I'm not as old as you think - I just started work young. I get screwed big time because I'm not scheduled to retire until well past the last of the baby boom. So assuming that I'm gouging everyone else to get mine is just plain wrong.
How is it fair to stick the post baby boom with $2 Trillion in (intrest compounding) debt?
I have to agree with you there. We've also aborted a large tax base in the past 30yrs ...and it going to be showing up on the books pretty soon.