In just a few years, the average retiree will be receiving 37% more in SS than he paid in

I will agree to give them all mine today if they stop taking out FICA for the rest of my working years.

ETA: what navy said

Al Gore talked about it. Lockbox. You may tease that nerd to holy high heaven but he was right about it.

George Bush said "It's your money. I will cut taxes" (and he did just that after the Iraq war had started (or was impending in any event)).

Clinton and Gore, say what you want, if those policies had been continued, things would not be so bad now.

You threatening a riot baw

Mate welcome back, but the topic du jour is Donald J. Trump's resounding victory in South Carolina.

P.S. Congratulations on the Michigan title and the Lions excellent season.

I look forward to working with you this fall to help re-elect Trump.

You think any of this matters? In a few years interest on the debt will exceed SS outlays.

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the average retiree will be receiving 37% more in SS than he paid in

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Play on words. Now add in the amount paid by the employer. Bet that number changes drastically.

Are you a complete idiot? I paid for 45 years at the limit of each year. I will not get back what I paid into if I live to be 86-1/2 , 20 years after I collect the first dollar. That is not counting any return of what would have happened if invested in a phucking savings bond

Not me. I am skewing the stats the other way. Not that anyone cares.

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I simply don’t think the average person on the left or the right currently grasps the shite storm ...

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It's apparent you don't.
BTW, why post an Andrew Biggs Opinion piece without a link, as if it is hard news?

Why lump Medicare and SS together as they are as different as your IRA and health insurance?

Why the angst about SS in 2032, when the rest of our budget CURRENTLY is running at that deficit level?

As Biggs lets us in on his opinion, those are questions you should be asking.

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The fact is SS is not a retirement program.
It is not a benefit to the recipient.

It is a loan you and I and every employed American is forced to give to Uncle Sam.
The beneficiary is the Federal Government!

Uncle Sam borrows your SS contributions and converts them into paltry returning bonds or debt instruments. The correspondent debt pool is referred to as the SS Trust Fund. There is no actual money in the SSTF, just IOUs.

If the same SS contributions were invested in the stock market, munis, or even 30-yr treasuries there would be no pending 2032 program deficit. But of course, if Uncle Sam invested the money in stocks, he'd not have it to spend on Ukraine, or Solyndra, or funding of DOJ lawfare targeting Trump, etc. That would defeat the purpose.

Again, the program beneficiary is Uncle Sam, not you. Uncle Sam sets a paltry ROI, and you have no say in it. Now government claims you owe more because the ROI the feds allot doesn't cover payouts.

Meanwhile SS SOL increases roll in to further strain the program. That is no accident.

But, the bottomline is SS is currently in surplus. The rest of our budget is not.

When the Feds tell you to focus on a fiscal problem a decade off, while not addressing current areas which are far more problematic than SS will ever be, you'd better hold on to your wallet.