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To: TimF who wrote (13181)	3/21/2012 10:54:20 AM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

<<<< 1 - It doesn't anymore. 2 - A "surplus" just means that there is a tax that is connected that brings in more money. It doesn't make the program one penny cheaper. If the federal personal income tax was called "the defense tax", then defense would "have a surplus" by your way of accounting for it, but I doubt you'd argue that we shouldn't try to contain defense spending because of its "surplus". The cost of the programs is the amount spent.>>>> 1) Yes it does. 2) Well of course the surplus doesn't make it cheaper. Why do you keep pulling these weird comments out of your shorts? Do you or do you not agree that your check has a specific deduction for SS? Do you or do you not agree that your check has NO deduction specified for defense? Do you want SS to end? Do you think it will and if so do you think people will sit idly by to let it happen? How would you have taken care of the problem of the baby boomers? If SS is blended into other taxes as you claim; what do you think the end game here will be? SS is the only program paid for by all the people. It is the one federal program that has brought MORE money into the government that it has spent. It is the only tax people in the lower income tax brackets pay for. If Obama is able to blend SS into all the other federal programs - the end result is that taxes for higher income people will go up and THERE WILL BE a significant transfer of wealth.