[Nervous Tick]

I can’t tell if that’s sarcasm, or not.

The “tweaks” in that article are things like taxing 100% of all income — no ceiling.

That is NOT a “tweak”. That’s a huge blow to our productivity. What’s more, you know as well as I that that money will NOT go to social security — it’ll be spent just as fast as it comes in.

[Deo volente]

Well, that is the most objectionable of the possible “fixes”. I think the point here is that there are several ways the deficit could be reduced. The shortfall is not etched in stone, it can be addressed through some tweaking here and there. Raising the retirement age gradually by a few years is the least objectionable to me, and could take care of much of the shortfall.

Here's another, more conservative approach to the problem:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2004/11/How-to-Fix-Social-Security