Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but you should know that yours is selfish and stupid, and you probably should have kept it to yourself.

Agreed. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office published a report showing that if we remove the cap on the Social Security tax, we don’t have to cut benefits or raise the retirement age at all.

This kind of info is why I read Lifehacker and I’ll be putting this on the wall of my office.

Good thing you waited for all the facts to come in before making this bold announcement. If it doesn’t work out at Kotaku, there’s a place for you at CNN.

It’s funny you should mention Wal-Mart in this case. In college I worked as a butcher, and was part of the group that voted in the first union at a Wal-Mart meat market in the US.

That’s a bit naive. One of the ways management torpedoes it is by convincing them it’s not in their best interest, which is why they stall with appeal after appeal, so they have time to wear them down. And that’s the least slimy form of union busting.