Posted on Jun 11, 2015
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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Hot Topic - Fixing Social Security - America Faces Tough Choices - Will we see this as a hot topic for the 2016 Elections?

http://www.tomasablanno.com/HOT-TOPIC-Fixing-Social-Security.c6562.htm?pk_campaign=SocialSpeaks&pk_kwd=LinkedIn&src=J3C4M
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CSM David Heidke
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I had a shower thought this morning that if we required all workers in the US to pay into Social Security, but you had to be a citizen to collect it we could get ahead of this thing.

Then I would be all for giving amnesty so that people would work over here and bolster our tax and Social Security base to pay for the baby boomers who are retiring.

Of course, that's a cocktail napkin plan to save the world...
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CSM David Heidke
CSM David Heidke
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I would also like to add to this shower thought.

In addition to the above:

- return social security funds to a separate fund.
- for each offshore position social security tax must be paid by the company that offshore the position. At triple the rate. Paid into the social security fund.
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SGT Robert Hawks
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Congress needs to stop paying Social Security to those who have not paid into the system. Congress also needs to make good on the three trillion dollars it has borrowed from the Social Security trust fund.
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LTC Dennis Rears
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Does that include spouses and dependent children who never paid into the fund?
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LTC Kevin B.
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Lift the wage cap and index the age of eligibility to average life expectancies.
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