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Originally Posted by mdawgmike  Another, probably less problematic solution to social security (thinking into the future on the increased immigration one), would be to simply temporarily increase the social security tax coming out of everyone's paycheck. Also slightly decreasing the benifits for the baby boomers would help alot too. A few dollars either way would make for noticable improvments to funding. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't mind paying an extra $10 (or whatever ammount) every paycheck if it means I'll be able to have the same benifits ready for me when/if I need them. |
I, along with probably many other fiscal conservatives, would be against the idea of raising taxes for this purpose. As for cutting the benefits given to the baby boomers, I can't comment on that until I would know how much and how it would most likely affect them (through a study).
As for immigration, keep in mind that not all immigrants are the stereotyped manual laborers like the ones we think of when we talk about the ones that cross over from Mexico. Some people that have applied to enter the United States are decently and well educated. No one actually commented on this and I am not saying that you or anyone else has stated something contrary to this; I just want to put it out there just incase.