In any normal situation we would be discussing how we could taper the People out of it, and also first making exiting the program voluntary. How and how much folks would receive back in exchange for voluntarily signing off on never receiving Social Security is a negotiation. What we have instead is a 1 or a 0 retarded conversation. You cannot have people in their 60s or more just left high-and-dry after 30+ years of paying into this insane system. Equally, you should not require young people to pay into a system that they know will never be there for them.

In any normal situation we would be discussing how we could taper the People out of it, and also first making it voluntary. How and how much folks would receive back in exchange for voluntarily signing off on never receiving Social Security is a negotiation. What we have instead is a 1 or a 0 retarded conversation. You cannot have people in their 60s or more just left high-and-dry after 30+ years of paying into this insane system. Equally, you should not require young people to pay into a system that they know will never be there for them.