Your money or your life? Hm-mmmm.....let me think a moment...??

[kentuck]

That's the situation our government is in at this time in history. We could forego any future taxcuts or even rollback the taxcuts that were initiated in 2001 and resolve many of our problems. We could raise the cap on SS and resolve the remainder of our problems. But that would consist of someone paying some money into our Treasury. God forbid we would have to return to the Robin Hood days of the Clinton years. There were so many people totally enslaved by the high tax rates of those times. But most act like Jack Benny - it will kill them to pay any more taxes. So they watch the nation suffer and die.

[Warpy]

1. And here I thought you were going to say something about healthcare

where a lot of us are in that "your money or your life" situation.

[kentuck]

2. That too....

and those that want to raise the retirement age should try to get a job after they are 50. It ain't easy. At age 55, it gets even more difficult. At age 65, I cannot envision. If there is a health crisis and you have to spend everything you have saved, and you cannot get a job, what do you do?

[Protagoras]

3. you die and decrease the surplus population.

Come on people, Dickens described the perfect society...then he mucked it up with all that namby pamby ghostly visitation crap and Scrooge's subsequent senility. Debtors Prisons and Work Houses are the obvious answers...er...right?