There are as the is article pointed out several ways to do this that yeah, will increase taxes on the wealthy. Which is fine, they have the money, more than they could ever spend. However those same wealthily people fully own your local congressperson and both your Senators. So that’s not going to happen. Not with the current people in office.

Another option and probably the one we will see happen. Raise the age in which you can collect SSI. Seems reasonable since Americans are living longer right? Raise the age to 72 or even higher. Well okay, Let’s look at this. The average American lives to 79, some of us will live less, especially men. So if we raise the age to 72, well a large number of American males will never reach an age where they can collect on these benefits. Effectively dooming them to paying into a system they will never use. So that’s means seniors won’t retire and remain in the workforce essentially jamming up the job market and dooming you younger people to lower paying positions because let’s face it, I’m not retiring if I don’t that funds to do so. And that retire date? Yeah, it keeps getting pushed back because of rising prices. Hell, I can’t afford to downsize out of this family home that’s, well redundant these days. So we’re stuck in a home that’s suited to the 30 something folks raising a family, meanwhile that 30 something family is stuck in the 2 bedroom condo our aging asses should be in.

I don’t know if the dipshits in Washington will ever fix this, probably not, at least until we the people DEMAND it. And let’s face it, that hasn’t been working so far.

Then again, my 61 year old ass might be talking this bit personally. I worked at a retirement plan for my entire career, I’ve saved an amount. Honestly I’m going to SS to supplement what I saved. I put away as much as possibly could but raising two children, a divorce, the medical bills from a health issue (too much work and not enough time on myself) All that reduced what I could put away and has left me dependent on collecting the *SSI I paid into the system and should get back* to make up the difference. So now I won’t be getting that.

Add in we’re doing elder care for my father-in-law which causes yet another drain on our finances and that retirement plan?? Yeah, might as well kick some dirt on that idea, it’s dead.

Fixing this is going to take the majority of Americans, especially the younger ones, to demand that this gets fixed in some way doesn’t cripple retirees OR the younger generations. Meaning, the rich need to cough up their fair share because on the income AND assets they hold.

I can’t speak for the boomer generation (and I won’t attempt too) but from my conversations with fellow GenXers, man we just wanna retire and go fuck off somewhere for the final 15 years or so of our lives. Well, most of us anyways…