Unless your implying that Buffet and Romney paid nothing in taxes what's wrong with everyone paying the same rate? The OP's angle in this thread is that someone who makes 10K a year pays "nothing"..... where's the logic that someone who pays nada, zip - demands someone else pay more?
Social Security is not a tax. You pay into a trust and you get directly get the money back later. But because the Government runs it, unlike like a private 401/IRA, if you die before the payouts the Government keeps the money from your spouse and children.
you pay in over decades and you get back after inflation has done decades of work.. It's a childishly stupid scheme that needs to go away..
Private accounts that you could invest how you saw fit but could not touch until retirement - but that were outside of the reach of the federal government to borrow against.
Bush the Younger, in other words. Privatize SS. Good damn thing nobody listened to that tripe. We would have tent cities of elderly right now.
People who cannot read a chart or understand investing/trading, which is the vast majority of Americans.
That's the only sane solution. Nobody has any of the money they put into Social Security in an account. The government has "borrowed" every dime and spent it. That's why the democraps were so against the Bush plan to supplement SS with private accounts. The democraps saw one of their sources of spending cash drying up. Idiots. Also, I guess RCG hasn't noticed that the market recovered from the dip in 2008. If people had been putting their money into stocks instead of the government they would be loaded now instead of seeing every dime absconded by Congress.