Where would the money come from to pay the current SS retirees?
The same place it would come from if Bush lets people put their own money in private retirement accounts: somewhere else. My question is, if Bush lets people set aside x amount of their own money to fund private accounts (under the guise of "choice"), why doesn't he just reduce the tax by the same amount, x, such that those people can have their own money directly, and invest it however they see fit?