Point taken. I guess maybe my frustration goes back a number of years on FR when this same subject was broached and received a collective yawn at best. I mean, there's a galactically large Medicare elephant sitting in the middle of the room that WILL bankrupt this country. I'll admit I could be overly sensitive about it, but I just wonder, where's the outrage?
I’m with you on this topic.
As millions of baby boomers like myself transition from taxpayers (often at the top of our career level earning power and thus top of our tax paying amounts) to payment receivers, the Social Sec and Medicare programs are in big trouble.
I paid the max SS tax for nearly 40 years and now I’m going to be paying in nothing and collecting.
The “hundreds of billions” that AARP says are in the “trust funds” are bookkeeping entries only, a promissary note from a broke government.