"John H" wrote in message
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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?


It is pretty comical for harry to comment on a slippery slope when that is
all SS taxation has become.

Started at 2%, of the first $3000...(self employed were not
taxed)....now it is 15.3% on on the first 87k with no limit on 2.9% for the
medicare.

AND all the while with NO guarantee of ANY payments......it is all at the
whim of congress.......what a deal......if it wasn't a guvmint program, it
would have been shut down years ago.


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