My final post on SS because it's beginning to be too contentious and it's not worth the angst: 1) Let everyone under 50 opt out of SS. 2) Create a temporary corporate tax on companies over 500 employees to fund the gap for those who paid into SS their whole working lives (compensation for helping to ruin retirement by dropping/raiding pensions). 3) Means-test the remaining SS recipients. Only those who would be indigent (homeless, underfed) without it receive benefits. 4) Get rid of state-funded old folks homes (and the cost). 5) End the Federal Reserve system, fractional reserve banking, and back the dollar with a basket of oil and rare earth reserves, bitcoin, and gold. 6) Make Congress approve any foreign military action longer than 30 days. 8) Radically curtail the surveillance state (and associated costs) by moving all intelligence functions under the military and gut the FBI, CIA, and NSA. 9) Make raising the debt limit a 2/3 majority of both Legislative houses, not just the House. 10) Reform bidding in military acquisition and force belt-tightening on the Pentagon (freeze spending at 80% of current levels for 5 years with the stipulation that this money must be earmarked for debt repayment). No more 20-year programs of multi-trillion dollar weapons systems that are obsolete the moment they roll off the assembly line. 11) Create an investment plan for younger people that guarantees a 7% annual return on their money that anyone over 18 can invest in independent of the company they work for, like an annuity (treasuries, but without the debt and inflation), and absent the management fees. 12) Create a legislative plan for sunsetting SS in 18 years. 13) Make it impossible to hire an illegal alien or for them to receive any public benefits, backed up by heavy fines on companies that flout the law. 14) Radically curtail foreign aid. 15) No more bailouts of banks and investment firms. They take on the entire risk. No more too big to fail. 16) Make derivatives illegal. 17) No interest rate higher than 10% to be allowed, with dollar-for-dollar collateral to 100% of the loan. 18) Pare back Medicare and Medicaid. No non-citizen receives benefits. 19) Remove all government funding/guarantees on tuition. 20) Make universities more difficult to matriculate into. That is, raise admission standards. 21) Mandatory government investment in trade schools for younger people. 22) Abolish the IRS and move to an individual flat tax of 10% and live within those means. 23) Abolish all sales tax and property tax on paid-off homes. 24) Abolish the double and triple taxing of money/profits as well as closing and junk fees on first-time homebuyers. 25) ???
