Social Security is yet another political hot potato that I don't see anyone, except maybe third parties, willing to honestly and sincerely confront, much less actually tackle head on in terms of re-working policy.
I'm a young American, and I view my FICA taxes as a total loss to myself. I don't want Social Security or Medicare; I would be willing to entertain tax-advantaged accounts of various types. I would also be willing to entertain deep spending reductions across all Federal agencies and departments, as well as a simplification of the Federal tax codes that consolidates the various payroll and income taxes into a single, flat-rate income tax. I would also be willing to entertain buy-outs of Social Security participants as a means of limiting Federal liability.
I don't see any of these ideas being proposed by Republicans. All they are promising to do is roll back spending to 2008 levels, which doesn't do anything about the spending they put into place under Bush or the spending that snowballed over the prior seven decades. and a simplification of the Federal tax code
Another Jefferson quote, March 28, 1811, "The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. We ought, for so dear a state to sacrifice every attachment and every enmity." (to William Duane, Ford 11:193)
It was then, and it is now. . Are we up to the task?
I’m working on a fairly complex response to you. I’ll have it ready later today.