By 2025 each George Bush or Bob Dole will be supported by only two George W.s or Liddys. I'll help you put the plastic bag over your head. We could, for one thing, forget the whole concept of Social Security as a government-run pension and insurance system, and just pay the benefits out of general tax revenue. This would be more honest, which is why it's such a bad idea. The delicate fabric of rational ignorance would be destroyed.
Old people vote like the dickens.
And tapping general revenues does nothing about the fundamental ratio problem of one geriatric duffer getting AARP skydiving discounts to two of us trapped in office cubicles. Or we could stick to the present system, which, as mentioned, would mean raising taxes, cutting benefits and increasing the retirement age by so much that Reagan would still be president. It's an unusual kind of politician who has the guts to do this, the kind of politician we will have gotten rid of through the assisted-suicide program. We could also stick with the present system while trying to put some real money into the Social Security trust fund. Let's save it all to pay for Social Security.