Re: Question on Safety Net

[rjk123@webtv.net (Richard Kabat)]

1. Eliminate the cap on employee contributions.
2. Doing so would  help handle the safety net 
    question---and help postpone inadequate 
     trust fund balances .
 3. A diminished  sense of urgency about
      social security would allow more attention
       to be paid to a far more critical problem:
       Medicare.
  4. I still think there is place for some manner
      of individual control in social security, be it
       savivgs, annuities, stocks, et al. 
   5.  Ideally, in the long term, the currnt social
        security system would be replaced with 
       a system which encouraged and rewarded
       those who provide for their old age while
       keeping  a safety net for the poor, probably
       in a consolidated wlefare program.