On W’s Social Security reform, I cannot help but agree with every single one of DeLong’s substantive criticisms of it here, which is why I support it withut reservations.

As for Bob Jacobs’s question, which is in fact substantive, the matter of where the money will come from for future retirees is a good one. But it seems to me it would be exactly the same matter whether the government is diverting some younger workers SS money into their own accounts or deceitfully spending a surpluse of it themselves, as they are now, while pretending to put it in some bogus trust fund. It’s a difference without a distinction. Except I would rather see the young people get it directly — and I am 62!

Social security was designed to assure our older members of society that they would have a base source of revenue for their retirement years. Without funds coming from younger workers each month, where do we look for the money needed to fund the promised monthly income stream?

By eliminatinting the ceiling on the wages or other income subject to social security tax, we could probably increase the monthly receipts sufficiently to assure payments to all retirees for the foreseeable future and beyond.

Given Prof. DeLong’s history of mocking and heated rhetoric against pretty much every person on the right, I’d say that for DeLong, republican == incompetent.

So you’re both right!

Given Prof. DeLong’s history of mocking and heated rhetoric against pretty much every person on the right, I’d say that for DeLong, republican == incompetent.

So you’re both right!

Social security was designed to assure our older members of society that they would have a base source of revenue for their retirement years. Without funds coming from younger workers each month, where do we look for the money needed to fund the promised monthly income stream?

By eliminatinting the ceiling on the wages or other income subject to social security tax, we could probably increase the monthly receipts sufficiently to assure payments to all retirees for the foreseeable future and beyond.

On W’s Social Security reform, I cannot help but agree with every single one of DeLong’s substantive criticisms of it here, which is why I support it withut reservations.

As for Bob Jacobs’s question, which is in fact substantive, the matter of where the money will come from for future retirees is a good one. But it seems to me it would be exactly the same matter whether the government is diverting some younger workers SS money into their own accounts or deceitfully spending a surpluse of it themselves, as they are now, while pretending to put it in some bogus trust fund. It’s a difference without a distinction. Except I would rather see the young people get it directly — and I am 62!

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