[Svartalfiar]

Or, cut it out completely. Pay everyone out into a private retirement account, based on what they've paid in with interest.

Current beneficiaries / those a year or two out, can choose to take lump sum or receive benefits as they normally would have.

Whole thing is gone in about three decades, never to worry anyone again.



Medicare is a bit more difficult to pull out of, but unless we want to pass a Constitutional Amendment to allow for it, it's not something FedGov should be involved in, at all.

[6thavenue]

“ Or, cut it out completely. Pay everyone out into a private retirement account, based on what they’ve paid in with interest. ”

Put everybody at the risk of the stock market. Bush proposed that and it went down in flames. Polls said even Republican voters opposed it. The GOP establishment has to stop fighting Socisl Security and start defending it, as Trump has said again and again. It’s an American program for the retirement security of Americans. An American first platform would defend it, as Trump has said. Any other policy will consign the GOP to perpetual political defeat.

[DNME]

Medicare is a bit more difficult to pull out of, but unless we want to pass a Constitutional Amendment to allow for it, it’s not something FedGov should be involved in, at all.

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Um … this is exactly true, FRiends.

Social Security and Medicare do not appear ANYWHERE in the Constitution and therefore should not be Federal obligations. We can add more programs to that list of naughties as well.

I’m sure the flames will begin any second now but … no … sorry. Amendment.