Really? So we don't have enough income generated each year within the USA to afford to pay SS...Since none of us have to worry about it until the mid 2030s, why the hurry? Its a paygo system anyway. Once we get to the point where SS is 100% of the taxable revenue (assuming SS taxes are subsidized by income taxes), then we can figure something out. But you know as an "economist" that any forecast that far out is really just made up nonsense. Ask yourself what an "economist" like you forecasted 20 years ago for today. Any of them right? Hell, ask Greenspan in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and so on....