I agree it’s smart to plan so that you don’t need it, and I definitely share that mindset.

You should check out the CBO report on Social Security policy options. They’re non partisan and know their stuff.

I guess what I was thinking with the car analogy, which I didn’t clarify, is that if you need a car to get to work, and assuming the repair is less expensive than getting a new car, then it makes sense to fix it. Social Security actually works quite well, and you have every right to expect it to be there for you when…

Serious or not, I was a bit of an @$$ on that last post. It’s definitely frustrating, but the solutions aren’t actually that complicated from a policy perspective. It’s just that people have gotten to the point where raising taxes isn’t even part of the conversation, and that’s kind of ridiculous. Right now the social…

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.