I'd heard we can make the thing healthy and pay off forever if we just remove the taxable earnings cap (I think it's at $175K now).
That's the part I was wrong about. Turns out, removing the cap makes it good for about 75 years, but one of the big things is that we have a demographics problem which could easily - eventually - turn us upside down and make it impossible for us to continue the program.
Here's a new content maker for me: Kathryn Anne Edwards holds a PhD in economics.
One of the best points she makes is that we have to decide that we want it to work - that it's a worthwhile thing, and we want it to go on. Then we can address the difficulties - difficulties that I think "conservatives" are deliberately putting in the way in order to starve the system out of existence.
Dr Edwards, if you would please:
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