Thanks for the info. What you state here is exactly what I meant.  Social security and medicare are line item taxes taken out with the promise of benefits when we retire.  Over the years, politicians (both parties) used the surplus to pay for other t...

You are right when you say congress did nothing all those decades and now the day is here.  You blame republicans for all the SS woes but the democrats have added more programs that have nothing to do with the original intention of SS and now we have...

Show me where this republican plan is, I would like to read it. The real threat to SS and Medicare is the out of control government spending.