Reply #13: Wonder how much the implementation of means testing

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will cost the government? Where will the money come from in our cash-strapped government . . . or will they privatize it and give another corporation another avenue for making a tidy profit?

People pay into Social Security. Regardless of how much money they are making or how much they have accumulated, the government does not have the right to simply take what they have paid in. If the government wants to reduce benefits for the wealthy, they should repay what the individual paid in - nothing added. Eliminating their 'benefit' completely is theft.