[Huck]

Flat schmat. It's just another 6 points on top of everything else. Just toss it on the pile. Eliminate the separate withholding, because it creates the illusion that SS is a funded pension program (which it is not.) Just make it another program, funded from general revenue, and then over time we'll be able to kill it.

[CMAC51]

Flat schmat. It's just another 6 points on top of everything else. Just toss it on the pile. Eliminate the separate withholding, because it creates the illusion that SS is a funded pension program (which it is not.) Just make it another program, funded from general revenue, and then over time we'll be able to kill it.

A perfect illustration of why government programs never get fixed. SS is indeed a pile of crap. However, your recommendation for fixing it is to take that pile of crap and pitch it on top of a bigger pile of crap, because then we'll be able to eliminate it. Makes sense to me.