Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!topaz!pleasant From: pleasant@topaz.ARPA (Mel Pleasant) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: re social security Message-ID: <239@topaz.ARPA> Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 21:13:18 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.239 Posted: Sat Jan 12 21:13:18 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 04:17:31 EST References: <804@hound.UUCP> <36200174@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 17 > 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