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From: pleasant@topaz.ARPA (Mel Pleasant)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: re social security
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Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 21:13:18 EST
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> Social Security does not force people to save.  The money collected via SS
> payroll taxes is NOT INVESTED!  It is immediately handed out to SS
> beneficiaries (with a good size chunk taken out for the bureaucrats,
> naturally).  If you ran a retirement system like the SS as a private
> citizen, you would go to jail.
> 
> Scott Renner
> {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!renner

Whether the money is invested or not isn't really a good arguement for or
against SS.  Are you saying that if the government were to start investing the
money that you would then support SS??  Question - if such a change were
made to the system, could/would it save it?

-Mel Pleasant
...seismo!topaz!pleasant