Back when Ronnie Raygun was President, he took the initiative to increase social security revenues, but only at the expense of the employee ... the employer got off scot-free. Some how I don't think they were bothered with boomer investments crippling the markets simply because they were hardly anything more than a tiny scratch on the surface.

That was over 30 years ago. It was also in a era where most people had pensions thru their employer and 401-K's were new investment vehicles for the average person to invest extra funds towards their retirement above both pensions and social security. Since then, the GOPer's pushed to make the 401-K the primary pension investment vehicle for businesses ... which relieves them of a taxed that was levied on them as insurance in case their pension funds defaulted and the government had to pick up their slack.

Wanna bet if us boomers begin to transfer funds out of stocks and into long-term bonds with high yields, there will be a penalty attached to make such a transition costly? Of course the penalty wouldn't stop the slide in stock prices, but some one will make a killing, financially.