>I understand what you are trying to do. But, I think you are mistaken in believing it will succeed. All it will do is win another battle for the class warriors and increase their political power.
I’ll have to agree to disagree. I cannot imagine the program ever being seriously cut until you remove the universal nature of it. The fact that we have such virulent support for a welfare program from conservatives here shows why I make my case.
>If 25% of Social Security payments are eliminated at the upper end, it becomes solvent again. And then it will never be killed.
Yes, but then you will have removed plenty of the political support for it, and reform might actually be possible without armies of seniors storming Washington with pitchforks.
In any case, the 25% across the board cut is about as likely to happen as me growing wings. So I’m accepting an imperfect solution over an impossible one.
I think you are mistaking "I was forced into contributing, and I'm not giving that up" for "support".
Yes, but then you will have removed plenty of the political support for it, and reform might actually be possible without armies of seniors storming Washington with pitchforks.
What political support? The people who got screwed?
I've got news for you. No one cares about us. We are demagogued every evening on the news, and by every politician on the left and right.
We (the top 20%) are already paying nearly 70% of federal taxes (of all kinds). The top 10% are paying 55% -- more than half.
I'm tired of bending over and taking it in the behind, because everyone else tells me that I have to do so for the "greater good". If it's the "greater good", then everyone else is going to have to step up to the plate and contribute, or they can f*** off.