Tax, tax, tax... thats the plan

[tater]

Originally Posted by August

Yeah that's what they kept telling Yossarian. I want my money and I want it when it was promised. I won't compromise and I won't let anyone off the hook.

Then you and everyone else will get squat.

I assume (I'm 45 YO) that I'll see nothing from SS and plan with that as the base point. I don't care if I don't get it til 70. You shouldn't, either, frankly. It's the "I'm getting X at 65, period!" attitude that makes it the "third rail." That drives the government doing NOTHING to fix it, not ever. Interest? SS was never invested. It was simply spent. There is no "lock box," it's revenue, plain and simple. Asking for more than you paid in? I pay way more in taxes than I'd ever see in government benefits. I'd dearly love to get back in services what I pay in, conservatively we must pay in a large multiple of what we get.

Since they'll listen to people like you, the only solution is to become insolvent. BTW, any expectation of payment is BS, IMHO. You will get medicare drug benefit (Bush), and the bulk of your working life you will have paid in NOT expecting that at all. How about people only get the medicare drug beni if they paid in for their entire working life with that on the table? You'll have 15 years paying in with that expectation, and 40 years without.

If the US loses our credit rating, you'll not get the same benis, either. 2/3 of the budget is entitlements. The only way to reduce the deficit is to curtail entitlements, period.