Kip Humphrey
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Fri Dec-03-10 04:54 PM
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Poll question: JOBS your priority? You want jobs? I'll give you jobs... |
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LOWER the Social Security retirement age to 60 and the early retirement age to 55 and watch corporations empty as their 55+ employees choose retirement. Problem solved.
Oh yes, this could cost BIG bucks. Let's say that cost falls between, oh, say it costs $700 billion to $1.5 trillion. Guess it depends if you want to rehire the nation's workforce by opening up millions of EXISTING jobs to the labor market or pay the wealthiest 2% a Premium tax cut applied to their income above $250,000, a Premium that will cost about $700 billion dollars. America, choose: Premium tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% or, solve the labor problem virtually overnight for the $700 billion + maybe up to 6 of those shiny, new but soon-to-be antiquated, piloted, fighter jets.
AMERICA, vote:
Which do you want for your money?
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Fri Dec-03-10 05:16 PM
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1. Lowering the retirement age is rational idea. |
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Especially considering the debt burden many younger Workers will have and have now.
We need good ideas to put these people to work and move people Up the wage scale.
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Fri Dec-03-10 05:43 PM
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2. Some economist on NPR suggested similar a week or two ago |
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Makes sense to me. And I would gladly give up my seat at the table for some young buck with better ideas and more energy when the time came - I just won't be able to afford to do so.
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Fri Dec-03-10 05:49 PM
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3. IIRC Bernie Sanders has proposed this, too |
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Fri Dec-03-10 05:53 PM
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4. That explains why it makes sense. The fact that it makes sense explains why |
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