“This is because no one really wants to cut anything noticeable.”
Including people on this site (i.e., www.FreeRepublic.com)....where half of the oldies are DEMANDING their Social Security money, even if it drives the country bankrupt (which, of course, it will).
We all like to talk big about cutting the budget, as long as it’s not our gravy train. When people here start to understand the fact that THEY (collectively) elected people to IMMEDIATELY spend the money they paid into Social Security, then I will start believing all the hyperventilation here.
The Republicans in Congress are stuck, as their voters are DEMANDING that the country go broke by not increasing taxes and not touching entitlements. And yes, half of the old people understand this...but the other half lines right up with Bernie Sanders on entitlements...and, of course, so do all of the Democrats.
Given those numbers...what exactly are the Republicans in Congress expected to do...print money out of thin air? Yep, and that is exactly the only choice we’re giving them.
social security is not a tax, if you don't give folks their due share...then you have retroactively taxed them....you want that? really? I want them to cut all the unnecessary spending.......they have no constitutional right to tax us for abortions, healthcare, sex studies, embryonic stem cell research...you get the idea. The country can tax us to support the common good....build roads, bridges, form a military, conduct foreign affairs....cut the rest of it and the social security money will be there. we don't need all that liberal claptrap spending.