[abb]

SS and MCR should be offered to seniors only age 70+ that have a combined income under $45k.

The two programs would instantly become "welfare" in the classic definition of the term. Many millions of taxpayers who funded the programs all their working lives would have been robbed of the money put into them.

Myself, I shall file for SS and MCR the instant I become elligible, regardless of how much money I'm making otherwise. I've been paying in to them for almost 40 years, after all.

[Louis Foxwell]

SS and MA ARE welfare. There is no such thing as “putting money inth SS and MA.” These are taxes, plain and simple, used to fund a welfare payment program. There is no investment or fund or benefit. No SS recipient has either a lump sum or available funds after death. This is not a retirement program by any meaningful definition. It is welfare, plain and simple.
The intrusion of government in the medical care industry increases cost as much as 75%. Get government out of health care and costs will plummet.

[Lurker]

Many millions of taxpayers who funded the programs all their working lives would have been robbed of the money put into them.

Let the thieves who did the stealing suffer the usual consequences of an angry mob.

L