wakeflood
Skeeter, you need Kootch to help you decide what to think? ;-)
As a pragmatic progressive, I suspect some modifications will need to be made to compensate for the fact that we have a huge demographic bump to deal with. I’m at the very, very end of the baby boomer bump and I’d be silly to expect that something won’t need to happen to make it pencil by the time I get to official retirement.
I’m in favor of means-testing but I know that has huge hurdles. (It’s supposed to help those who need it most as a supplement so if you’re already doing very well – and I’d be happy to be in that class, we’ll see – then I’m good with getting less so them’s that are scraping by get a little more.) I’m also in favor of NO CAP on wages eligible to pay in. I’m not sure why there ever was a cap to be honest.
The short answer is, I just want it to be there for my kids and theirs and both the paying in and paying out needs to be as fair and progressive as we can make it.