dagblog - Comments for "The SS Trust Fund is going broke. Good" http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/ss-trust-fund-going-broke-good-7965 Comments for "The SS Trust Fund is going broke. Good" en  Fourteen years later I've http://dagblog.com/comment/99655#comment-99655 <a id="comment-99655"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/ss-trust-fund-going-broke-good-7965">The SS Trust Fund is going broke. Good</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><span style="font-size: small;"> Fourteen years later I've developed belated appreciation for Al Gore's proposal for a lockbox for SS withholdings. Withholding does serve as enforced saving and I'm sufficiently conventional to assume that's desirable:  ant and  grasshopper  etc</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;">Except that we've seen the downside - or at least some of the downside - of entrusting savings to the tender mercies of the Treasury/ politicians.But that's a whole n'other subject as the saying goes.</span></p></div></div></div> Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:27:00 +0000 Flavius comment 99655 at http://dagblog.com