*IF* the mandate goes down....

[Rosco T.]

.. how long till the GOP gets the ball rolling to declare Social Security a 'mandate' and get it declared un-constutional?

[vt_native]

1. Not IF but WHEN

Just sayin'

[Uncle Joe]

2. Social Security isn't a mandate to purchase from a for profit institution.

Thanks for the thread, Rosco T.

[Rosco T.]

3. yeah, but...

.. you are REQUIRED to pay for something that some people don't want. I don't agree with that train of thought, but think with the GOP mind here.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Whether people want it or not isn't the question insofar as the Constitution is concerned.

With Social Security the only people that profit from it are either the administrators through their salary and the people drawing from it.

With the for profit insurance industry people having nothing to do with the administration of this endeavor will profit, it becomes a government mandated Casino for stockholders and other forms of playing the market.

[girl gone mad]

5. Would you support privatized SS?

That's where this line of thought leads.

I would absolutely be opposed to a bill that required me to give part of my pay to Wall Street to invest for my retirement while they were pulling multi-million dollar bonuses. We have representation when it comes to regulating SS administrators. We have almost no control over Blue Cross Blue Shield and how they run their business.

[TheKentuckian]

6. Social Security is funded by tax dollars and the government has the right to levy taxes

It is actually enumerated and no stipulation that you only be taxed for things you want to pay for. It really isn't the same thing at all.

The general fund is not our after tax dollars or our pockets.

[madinmaryland]

7. That's why we need a single payer health insurance plan. nt