Reply #4: just to clarify something in your first paragraph [View All]

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It takes less workers to support an individual retiree today because workers of today make higher wages. The right has tried to spin this as a bad thing, making it appear that it is unsustainable. In truth, wages rise higher than the cost of the program, so it only takes 2 workers contributing, not more, as in the past.

Changing the program (as Lindsay is trying to do) by tying it to prices vs wages would lower the benefit to retirees as wages rise faster than prices (why we need less workers per retiree today).

They are trying to be very clever with this, we must be alert to the sleight of hand.