I'm up for considering that idea, amongst others. I'm not one of the people that is steadfastly against raising the Social Security age limit. However, I also think it is worth looking at raising the cap on salary for the SSI tax applies. Perhaps some combination of the two ideas.
Point still stands that SSI isn't in horrid shape. We should work on fixing it, no doubt, but Medicare is more of a concern. Unfortunately, I don't think that Congress is going to want to revisit health care reform soon, given the battle they just went through and the other battles coming up. We shall see though. Judah On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Robert Munn <cfmuns...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Social Security and Medicare are no longer safety nets for the > vulnerable. They are the biggest middle class entitlements in history. > What would I do? I would start by indexing the onset of benefits to > average US life expectancy. That's how the program was originally > designed, but the age wasn't indexed, it was set at a fixed age (65), > which was the average life expectancy at the time. If we did that, our > structural budget problems would disappear. > > > > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> What do you do with your elderly, and your sick then? >> >> What is your plan to deal with the have nots and the vulnerable in America? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:322579 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
