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Which House members want to just end Social Security?

• paulmd 10y ago
  Nobody will ever fess up to ending social security in as many words, but ending the program in its current form as a guaranteed safety net is a plank of the Republican platform. Typically this is coupled with some kind of savings plan along the lines of an individual retirement account, which may retain the name 'social security'.
• MichaelBurge 10y ago
  "We put those payroll contributions there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program" -- Roosevelt Plenty of people want the program gone. Nobody's going to say it in public if they want to get elected, though.