How will Social Security be modified?

It should be modified so that people don’t get it if they don’t need it, but that will probably not happen because cutting social security is incredibly unpopular

All should get it because they pay into it. It may come to pass that they have to means test it.

If they do, the highest tax brackets will see a reduction of around 20%… that’s what I read anyway.

not sure what I think about all that

There should be no means testing and if you paid into it you should benefit exactly per the tables. Social Sec was not meant to be another means of redistributing income. Pass a different program if you want to redistribute income.

Project 2025 suggests raising the retirement age to 69 and reducing the benefits. I think it's a pretty safe bet they'll at least do the former.

This is why we actually have to teach history and government in schools. SS was designed to tax people who were working while paying out people who were not. SS payments are not “your” money like a 401k. Your benefit is not really proportional to what you pay in, so it is redistributive - e.g. there is a cap even if you keep paying in.

Those who voted for him don’t know what they did.

I’m getting a kick out of the WSJ commenters. They’re pretty unhappy with the cabinet picks so far, and you know a good number of them voted for Drumpf. All I gotta to everyone is concerve your energy and outrage bc there’s more to come.

Social security should be jettisoned along with the banking cabal that runs the fiat currency scam. Why, if the government can and does print hundreds of billions of dollars to hand out to its cronies in support of often murderous and corrupt projects, does it simultaneously need to take part of your paycheck?

WSJ is a joke of an establishment rag run by the openly neocon Murdoch family. The Koch brothers are also pissed off about Trump. Who knows what will happen, but thank goodness picks so far haven't been the normal bunch of warmongering con artists.

Would be amazing to see Thomas Massie involved in some way.

Trusting the government to teach its own history is an absolutely hilarious idea. It is a failed 100-year-old experiment that has done little but brainwash people and utterly crush innovation in the field of education. Berlin Runner probably knows about this first-hand.

It has also been used as a justification to push families towards two incomes -- which takes men and women alike away from their children, and puts them to work in places like offices where they create products that are generally not helpful to anyone and which cause depression and alienation in the people selling them.

And with two parents at work who better to raise the children than the state? That is until dinnertime when the addled and diddled children return home to hastily-prepared meals composed of dangerous manufactured foodstuffs. No wonder folks are fat, unhappy, divorced, and without meaningful skills.

All of which to say, I sincerely hope whoever gets in ends both Social Security, and whatever department is responsible for telling people like Berlin Runner that threatening workers with violence if they don't pay not only for the keep of other workers, or the elderly, but also to propagandize people on the virtues of such coercion.

And we all know it isn't 'our' money. It ceased being our money when they gave themselves the right to print it at will. I dare you to find the history of that in a government school book.

Nobody in government is qualified to say who needs it, or what responsible use of money entails.

A proper teaching of history would include the fact that there were 40 workers per Social Security recipient in 1940, but only 3 workers per retiree today, soon to be 2.

The Social Security "trust fund" has been spent.

It is impossible to raise taxes enough to cover the coming outlays. So massive benefit cuts and/or a significant raising of the eligibility age must happen.

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To be clear, I made no commentary on how demographics, the balance of income and capital, government spending and tax structure changes have affected the current state of Social Security, Medicare or any other program. If you'd like to discuss the details, causes and potential solutions of that, we can. There are ways of making SS more efficient, cheaper and funded while not cutting benefits to those who actually need them.

But I suspect you don't want a meaningful discussion.

Depends if he succeeds in removing taxes on SS income

This fails to consider that productivity has quintupled since the 1940s

Of course demographic aging is a problem, there is a large boomer population about to retire and fewer younger workers. This will be compounded in the future because millennials are having fewer children.

This is an argument for having high levels of migration of young working-age people to soften the cushion. But that's a very unpopular opinion at the moment.

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Means testing is garbage. It often costs more to means test a program than what it would cost to just give people the benefit, which is what the money is allocated for in the first place