Quick thoughts of our liberal president.
Progressive indexing. Means-testing. Whatever you call it, Bush's social security is all about protecting the most needy. Which sounds fine, even liberal. So why doesn't any liberal or Democrats support it? People are simply finding Bush untrustworthy. That's right--even when he's pushing something that sounds like the liberals would do, everyone doubts his ultimate motive. And why I don't trust means-testing? It goes against everything Social Security is about. The whole point was that everyone who works pays their equal share, poor or rich (at least under the cap), and your benefits will be paid later proportionally. Making the benefits based on a sliding scale makes this seems more like a welfare program for the poorest. Diminishing the benefits for the middle class makes it easier for the middle class to forsaking it at a later day. I think this is merely the first step to alienate the American middle class from this twentieth century social program and ultimately killing it.
posted by hedgehog @ 1:17 AM
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