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Opinion #1
Debater: paraquat99
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Social Security helps more than just the elderly.
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Anyone who knows someone disabled, widowed, orphaned or elderly knows Social Security is a successful gov't. program that guarantees a supplemental income the private sector cannot. But isn’t Social Security going broke? No. Actuaries note that the current Fund holds enough to payout full benefits until 2042. Then, without changes, 75% of benefits will be paid out. Social Security cannot go broke because payroll taxes will continue to be collected. True more will retire and live longer than previous generations, but such concerns were addressed in 1983. At that time, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan compelled Congress to raise payroll taxes to 12.4% to build Trust Fund reserves. To guarantee benefits after 2042, Congress needs only raise the amount of income subject to Social Security tax and raise the payroll tax less than one-quarter of the amount it did in the 80s. Social Security is welfare everyone who pays into and benefits from. It has nothing to do with "laziness."
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Opinion #2
Debater: Jtaylor1
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Social Security hurts the Treasury Department
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If elders who wanted retirement benifits, medical insurance, and a well affordable retirement home, they should get a retirement job. As for the disabled, the widowed, and the orphans, will they get benifits from Social Security by robbing the Treasury Deparment? No. They should do the same as the elders. If the orphans, the widows, and the disabled wants to get a good benifit and well affordable homes, they should get jobs like the rest of us especially the elders. The treasury department is not a bank for the lazy homeless sloths who complain about everything. For example, if they want food, they should get a job. They are responsible grownups, not slackers and so called hobos. Do we want hobos stealing money from the Treasury Deparment? I take that as a "NO". In conclusion, Social Security hurts the Treasury Department.
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