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>Maybe. The first thing that would happen would be for the politicians to use the surplus to buy votes( increase benefits) and let the 2040 politicians figure out what happened to the money.
Yes. There no substitute for character.
>Eliminating fraud would save about $3 billion a year. And since the SS( lock box or not) is now part of the general fund maybe you wouldn't have to spend the $5.6 bailing out pension plans.
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>Changing the tax code so they would be on a level field with the large corps that spend millions on lobbyist and tax lawyers might help.
I'm for that.
When I was a CFO of an AMEX company, we had people who made sure that we paid almost no taxes
My son has a small business and spends a fortune on all kinds of taxes.