... But we should get to keep some of the FICA that we currently
pay out if we're never going to get Social Security anyhow. That's all
Bush is proposing.


Huh? Bush is proposing shutting off Social Security altogether? That's a
new one.


That will never happen. That plan would 1) take money out of the general
revenue 2) Only benifit the rich


That's right, heaven forbid that President Bush do anything that
benefits only the rich!


NOYB wrote:
You're correct. And here's why: the rich pay the most money into the
"general revenue".

And here's why 'the rich' *should* pay the most money into the general
revenue: they get most of the nation's income and control more than most
of the nation's wealth.

Doesn't it sound fair that they should pay a fair portion of the total
tax bill? Somehow, that part of it never gets mentioned by pro-Bush
'conservatives.'


But social security wasn't designed to be a program to redistribute wealth.

Yes, it was. It was a redistribution program from day one, a Ponzi
scheme... illegal for private citizens, but gov'ts get to make their own
rules!

And that is what it has become. No wonder the Dems like it so much...and
the Republicans despise it.

No, I think that many Republicans despise Social Security for the same
reason they despise the French, because a lot of money has been spent to
monopolize the airwaves, drumming those thoughts into everybody's head.
Fortunately some of us can still think on our own.

DSK