On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 09:35:58 -0500, thunder wrote:

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:01:28 -0500, John H wrote:


Is allowing a choice over the disposition of 4% of an individual's
contributions 'doing away with the current program'?

Hey John, did you know the first US income tax was only 3%? Have you ever
heard of a "slippery slope?"

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005921.html

You mean people making more than 3% with their social security money might want
to put more than 4% in index funds? Like maybe they'd want to go to 10% or
something?

Isn't one of the mainstays of liberalism a 'pro-choice' philosophy? Why not let
people have the choice about what they do with 3% of their social security
deductions?

What is so frightening about that idea?

John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes