Reply #38: What's the big deal with raising the payroll tax some? Or taking the

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cap off? Or what about means testing it? Surely anybody who is still collecting 80 100 thousand a year after retirement wouldn't begrudge benefits to somebody who SS is their only retirement income. Have we become so greedy that we wont pay an extra five or ten bucks a month to make sure our seniors are taken care of?

So many old people have lost their pensions thru bankruptcies and sell outs and so many young people are making so little and have no pensions or money to go into any kind of investments SS is going to be more valuable than ever.