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As a 60 something (and the youngest of 6) that is taking SS early I don't see the program getting shuttered. All my siblings were...

You pretty much have it. The CFRB proposal is roughly 60% reforms on spending growth reductions and 40% on revenues. * I love Improve...

Who knew my little deficit graph would spur a nice little SS discussion? This won't be popular but I honestly don't think anyone is...

Government spending growth has been out of control. As I mentioned earlier, if we could have frozen spending levels of just 4 years...

Who said anything about eliminating SS payments?? I want SS to continue and want serious discussion on debt. My point is that we...

I didn't say that. I think you might be conflating income tax and SS taxes. With SS taxes everyone pays in. There is a cap on...

FICA income cap? Yes, reason why the cap has increased 15% over last two years. Medicare tax (2.9%), however, does not have an income...

That is why I specifically said the FICA "income cap has been raised every year". It is a higher tax payment every year -- no two ways...

Sorry. Assumed you were aware. The FICA tax maximum has increased every year since 2016. And 21 of last 24 years. Can you elaborate...

1) I strongly disagree with you about it not being a huge tax increase. People have been getting a tax increase on FICA nearly every...

Why are you against raising the retirement age? That seems like a good start to help fortify SS for the long-term. And why okay with...

You continue to attempt to make this an item about a particular political party. When I said no current elected official is serious...

If you think Biden has been serious about reducing debt…then I don’t know how to address that. I hope you realize he has not been. A...

Name one current elected official that has been remotely serious about fixing the debt burden. Just one.

Sad that ever increasing debt is not a top issue. There is no roadmap to address this and no leading elected official is serious fixing...