Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round.
From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.
With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate.
Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits.
Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.
I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.
I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.
Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042.
We know that Medicare is set to go bankrupt in 2024 with no action, and social security is set to be insolvent by 2037.
I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system.
It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts.
One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.
Democrats are fighting fire with fire. Our principled stance on Medicare and Social Security is absolutely no different than the Republicans' stance on no revenue increases without cuts.
The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.
Social Security and Medicare are necessary safety nets, but they are nearing insolvency as fewer pay in, more take out, and more take out more.
If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.
I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it's Social Security, whether it's Medicaid, whether it's Medicare.
A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.
