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- From: mikeq@freddy.CNA.TEK.COM (Mike Quigley)
- Newsgroups: pnw.general
- Subject: Re: Tax the rich!
- Message-ID: <4104@master.CNA.TEK.COM>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 21:41:19 GMT
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- > "eliminating Social Security Benefits for just one year would
- > completely pay for the deficit."
- >
- >Yes, but those benefits are paid completely out of FICA payroll taxes,
- >i.e., taxes that -- in theory -- are earmarked to pay these benefits.
- >
- >If the feds did their accounting honestly, the Social Security income
- >and payments would be on a separate budget and wouldn't be part of this
- >discussion.
-
- Town Hall had a discussion on SS the other night. One critic said that
- the SS ``trust'' fund is completely gone. Empty! Kaput! Drained! The SS drone
- just looked sheepish and said something to the effect that congress
- will always come to the rescue of the SS system.
-
- Within 15 years, it will take two working people to support every person
- on SS.
-
- If you're under 50, may as well kiss-off SS, unless you actually DO trust your
- government!
-
- Mike
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