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To: Lane3 who wrote (4867)	5/10/2005 7:32:59 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 7936

I think the idea of those particular bonds is they would be the ones issued for the original buy out only. Then it makes sense that they would die with you because the current SS dies with you. But part of the appeal of personal accounts is that they don't die with you. But if all of the new money from day one does survive you it wouldn't be so bad What about spouses? If you married would your spouse get all of your funds (including the inital buyout not just the new money) when you die? And there would probably be limits on how risky you can be with your account or how much of your account you can be risky with. I don't know that this would be much more of a problem with this mechanism than with Bush's private accounts. With such limits it might not be too much more of a problem. From your perspective as someone who is young enough to have a stake in this, do you think it would feel better to get the buyout and own it? Yes I like the idea. Tim