Comments on: Guest Poet: The Saving Social Security Poem http://themoderatevoice.com/17576/guest-poet-the-saving-social-security-poem/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Mon, 28 May 2012 07:24:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/17576/guest-poet-the-saving-social-security-poem/comment-page-1/#comment-123550 DLS Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:04:17 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/social-security/17576/guest-poet-the-saving-social-security-poem/#comment-123550 And this, of course, is untrue:<br><br>"If we SSI’d all earners<br>But on payouts keep a cap,<br>We would not just solve a problem<br>We would close a fairness gap." And this, of course, is untrue:

“If we SSI’d all earners
But on payouts keep a cap,
We would not just solve a problem
We would close a fairness gap.”

]]> By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/17576/guest-poet-the-saving-social-security-poem/comment-page-1/#comment-123549 DLS Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:42:51 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/social-security/17576/guest-poet-the-saving-social-security-poem/#comment-123549 "We must either cut the benefits<br>Or make new claimants wait"<br><br>The second is the same as the first -- an effective benefit reduction.<br><br>The modern age today for retirement (2008) should be 70 if not higher (72).<br><br>This isn't the only thing the "seers" [sic] say is needed. The other thing to do is to raise Social Security taxes. Eliminating the cap on the wages subject to the tax is going to delay the onset of program deficits by only a few years, however. “We must either cut the benefits
Or make new claimants wait”

The second is the same as the first — an effective benefit reduction.

The modern age today for retirement (2008) should be 70 if not higher (72).

This isn't the only thing the “seers” [sic] say is needed. The other thing to do is to raise Social Security taxes. Eliminating the cap on the wages subject to the tax is going to delay the onset of program deficits by only a few years, however.

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