From: Bill Lucy 

In article , nomail{at}hotmail.com says...

> The thing is, if they leave SS alone, then the liability keeps growing and
> as it does they'll keep putting off paying back the money they spent. The
> longer they/we wait, the worse the problem gets -- putting extra pressure on
> raising the FICA, raising the age for benefits and lowering the benefit
> amount.

In 1998, the Concord Coalition published a primer on Social Security reform
which, to my mind, is still helpful today. It offers a good discussion of
all that is being spoken of here. Even though some of the graphs are dated,
the primer is a good read. It's near the bottom of the link below:

http://www.concordcoalition.org/socialsecurity/

In addition, there is a reprint of the Coalition's January, 2005, full page
ad in the NYT, which gives a current opinion of the issue.

http://www.concordcoalition.org/socialsecurity/050109nytad.pdf

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