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To: i-node who wrote (857404)	5/15/2015 5:44:17 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Recommended By i-node Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576177

Inode, what's funny about the liberal argument for lifting the cap on SS payroll taxes but not benefits is that they're spelling the doom of the program itself. This is because there is a traditional connection between what people have paid into the system and what people expect out of it. How many people, especially on this very thread, have said that they expect to see Social Security benefits when they retire because they paid into the system their entire lives? But once you disconnect the contributions from the benefits, you are eroding the very confidence that people have in that system, for now what you contribute no longer has any bearing on what you'll get out of it. In other words, you won't get what you're "entitled" to because politicians have decided that others need the benefits more than you do. Fortunately for liberals, they're far from completely severing that connection, even with their proposal to lift the cap on payroll taxes. But it's a significant step toward that future, one that only a liberal would take lightly because of political expedience and because you'll never, ever see a liberal take responsibility for unintended consequences. Tenchusatsu