Many people don't understand how social security functions.
True.
The people who need it the most are the ones who are taxed the most. Lets face it, the rich pay more then 2/3rds of the taxes in this country. That's the way it is. The middle class then pay the second greatest amount. My dad really needed this and we were given quite a generous amount of money. I'm not minimizing the working class, but saying they do not work the same quality as the middle class which got the majority of the tax cut.
Well, I'm not going to argue with that, because it's basically true. But the rich can afford paying the taxes. In many situations, the working class cannot.
No. $1 trillion from what I heard. And I think I'm going to trust my sources over you.
Like I said, accurate estimates cannot be made yet. Several economists predicted that it would be 2 or 3 (and they were reliable sources, quoted in several newspapers, and I saw the same figure on Yahoo). I have no doubt that your source is reliable as well. It just can't be predicted yet, because the plan is not in action, and hasn't been ratified.
Mutual funds, not stock markets. Mutual funds are stable and good. Bush's plan would give us independence and security.
I'm sure......
Going to cost us more and more money, we have a problem? Dude wake up, there is no way out of this.
Yes there is. Like Bush said the SOU, there is everything from making the retirement age higher, to providing limited care, and other options.
Besides it will be an amount our nation can afford over the span of a decade.
Yeah, an extra 100 - 200 billion a year. That's just what we need, with our defecit and all.