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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cody andre who wrote (552)	8/5/1998 11:14:00 AM
From: David Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Firstly FICA could probably drop to about 10% or lower if entitlements were lowered. I'm guessing here, so no flames over precise figures please. :-) I guess it depends on your point of view. If social security is a safety net to provide for the most economically needy, than lets keep it as small as possible. Seems to make sense. If on the other hand it is a mandatory government administrated store of the nations assets, then I agree with you that a 1.8% return is terrible and anyway, what is government doing hoarding people's money like this?