Quote Originally Posted by BarryBobPosthole View Post
The one answer I liked from Huckaby was the one about means testing social security.

The answer to the social security funding issue is quite simple. First, pass a law that forbids the government from borrowing against the trust funds for any program outside of social security. We've borrowed about $2trillion from it for other programs so far. Second, means test the only portion of it that's not paid for and that is disability payments. A person on social security is only eligible to recieve it if they stay below a certain income level. That's not true for disability payments and that makes no sense for a 'safety net' type of insurance which is what all of social security is. Its also the fastest growing segment of social security costs and is the part of the trust fund that will run a deficit the fastest.

BKB
That's fine if you don't pay into it.
But if you buy insurance, you don't want the benefits paid only to the poor.