My dad doesn't need SS, but he'll start collecting it early next year, and it's about time he did. He's busted his butt for his whole life, he spent the best part of 7 years underwater on a nuke sub for his country, and he's been a good father and grandfather. If I've got to pay a few extra pennies on the dollar to keep him supplied with gas for his fishing boat during his golden years, so be it.
The same goes for the rest of you geezers out there, I don't mind buying a few bingo cards for your wives, they've earned it with a lifetime of work and care. I'll be happy to buy you a drink, if you'll put up the quarters for the pool table. If my taxes go way up, you'll have to feed the juke box, too (I like classic country).
And no, I'm not rich. I just had to sell a gun to come up with the cash to buy my 2 year old boy his first bed, since he called me into his room to show me how he can climb in and out of his crib.
Look at it this way, folks. We could do what families in other countries do, and what used to be far more common, here. When mom and pop get too old to work, they come move in with you. :shock: Now, doesn't that extra SS tax sound a lot cheaper?