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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: geode00 who wrote (262260)4/22/2008 3:17:05 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Social Security is an insurance program because, even if you paid in, you may not get anything if you get hit by a bus before you are old enough to collect.

That's a rather odd definition of an insurance program.

But fine call it an insurance program. Doing so doesn't invalidate any of my points, or mean that a dollar spent by it is not a dollar of government spending.

Leave Social Security to roll on by itself by taking off the income cap

That likely will not be enough, and also would be a massive tax increase. Not something that should be tossed off as if it was a simple answer.

Econ 101: energy prices, fees, reduction in services, etc. all ACT AS A TAX ON PEOPLE.

They aren't a tax if they don't go to the government, and they don't even "act as a tax" if they are not forced contributions to someone. Nothing in Freshman Econ says differently.
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