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- Path: sparky!uunet!tessi!allen
- From: allen@tessi.com (Allen Warren)
- Subject: Re: Tax the rich!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.182702.16221@tessi.com>
- Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
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- Distribution: pnw
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:27:02 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- mikeq@freddy.CNA.TEK.COM (Mike Quigley) writes:
-
- >> "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!
-
- The Social Security fund is actuall in the black these days and THAT'S why
- eliminating the benefits for just one year *might* help to pay for the
- defecit, if and ONLY if the funds for that year were earmarked for payment
- of the defecit.
-
- The real problem, as you alluded to, is the SS fund *possibly* running out
- of bucks by the time Clinton's generation reaches retirement and SS
- eligibility age.
-
- allen
-