>>GOOD choices, and a a good deal less expense than the rest of us have to pay....<<
Yeah but. My husband makes a lot less money than he'd make in private industry. In return, he gets better benefits, and favorable working conditions, like seniority and flex time.
That's the tradeoff we make, and we'll have made it for about 40 years when he retires. That's a lot of money under the bridge.
This bit about "the American tax payer deserves no less than Congress gets" kinda skips over the fact that Congressmen make $150,000 a year, which is great money if you're Joe Sixpack in Peoria but chump change for a skilled political type in Washington.
Just remember that there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Cheaper drugs for seniors comes out of the pockets of the American tax payer. Which would be you and me.
I don't deny that prescription drugs are hard to pay for if your sole source of income is Social Security.
But the way insurance works is that you pay a little bit, forever, to avoid having to pay a lot once.
If we're going to put prescription drugs benefits into social security, we need to make the general public pay for it out of their taxes.
Caveat: my mother and father are already on Social Security. You want to sweeten their deal, fine by me, that means I don't have to dip into my savings to help them. We'll put the burden on Generation X, Y and Z and hope for the best for us boomers. |
