The Republicans want "Social Security reform" to solidify and make permanent the tax gains they achieved in the 1980s and under Bush the lesser.  The Social Security Trust Fund surplus, generated by increases in the payroll tax passed in the 1980s, has made the massive tax reductions for the wealthy possible.  Surprisingly, the wealthy are so greedy they do not want to share this money with the rest of us.

Yes, there is money to pay for our government including Social Security, Medicare, health care for all of us, infrastructure, and whatever else you might need.  Somebody has it, and that somebody is the folks that got the tax reductions paid for with our increased payroll taxes.  Tell those greedy folks you have had it up to here with them.

Whenever you hear anyone propose Social Security reform, there is one and only one reform to support:
1. Raise the ceiling on the the payroll taxes (eliminate it) and expand it to non-payroll income.
2. Continue the benefits under current practices (as if the ceiling were not eliminated).
3. Use the surplus thus generated to solve the health care finance problems.

Now cross posted with more discussion @ dagblog.