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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (630359)	10/4/2011 1:41:26 PM
From: SilentZ	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578295

>So you believe in the SS trust fund myth. Not exactly. >By the way, that "dedicated tax" is very regressive, yet it makes up for more than half of federal tax revenues. I didn't say it was a great tax; but it works. >Either way, SS and Medicare expenditures are growing beyond tax revenues. This has been forseen for decades now, so you can't use the economy as an excuse. For most of that time, it was BS. But medical costs have exploded and tax revenues have declined. Still, SS is fine for at least 25 years, and it was much longer than that until the downturn. >Can't address the deficit without tackling those two programs. Once again, maybe in the long term, but they are not responsible for any of our exisitng debt. >Can't address those two programs without people like you accusing reformers of wanting to starve seniors and deny them their health care. You guys aren't reformers. You're the intellectual descendants of those who didn't want those programs in the first place. -Z