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mopinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-05 02:23 PM
Response to Reply #21
24. here's a couple of ideas
which follow from the fact that it is insurance.
ss could attract more "customers", or get the existing customers to buy bigger policies- let people make voluntary contributions. let lower wage workers make a voluntary payment, up to the existing cap, and therefore, get a higher benefit in the end. although this also adds to the systems liability, at least it goes to the people who need it most.
and as far as people who don't need the money, there could be some sort of opt out. maybe give a wealthy person a small lump sum payout at retirement. but you can't just take it away because you think i have enough money.

the thing is, if you really are committed to the core idea that it is not welfare, there are a lot of ways to tweak the system.

what bugs me is that the ideas being kicked around on the left make it LESS 'owned' for lack of a better word. it's the third rail because the 'greatest generation' knows that they earned it and own it.
WE CANNOT UNDERMINE THAT!
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