Social Security

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by nailer

If we're playing the blame the President game I'll go back to that great friend of the common man, FDR. SS has been a pay as you go social welfare program from the start.

It's a federal government trust fund. How much trust does any Congress deserve?

I think I said that. But FDR is before my lifetime, Reagan was right in the middle of it, and pulled one of the dirtiest tricks ever: cutting taxes on the rich and then increasing the most income regressive tax we have, the capped SS tax. And putting it over with lies about SS.