It's funny you bring up Saturn. My friend drove his Saturn 320,000 miles without problems.
I'd like to see some "proof" that American cars are trash. Not anecdotes but actually studies across thousands of car. As I stated before, I've owned one Dodge that went over 300,000 miles, and Plymouth over 20 years old, and both were more reliable than my Honda (keeps giving me random check engine lights).
And then there's my friend with the 320,000 mile Saturn that just kept going and going and going... Please show me some evidence that American cars are crap compared to European or Japanese or Korean cars.
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If your idea takes off (and it very well might when push comes to shove on the issue as most voters don't have any savings), it will put an even more negative impact on personal savings rates. In fact perhaps a much larger one.
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Well I'm not convinced. Welfare is a "needs based" system where people pay & pay & pay, but never get anything back unless they need it. People seem happy with that arrangement, and it keeps welfare at a manageable level so as to not go bankrupt (like SS is).
I also disagree with SS on principle. It's supposed to be a safety net, not a free loterry for everyone over 70. You shouldn't get SS if you don't need it. ----- We should encourage our retirees to be independent & self-sustaining, not parasites living off the government treasury.
[Another idea: Make it based upon income. Anyone who earns over $4 million during their lifetime becomes ineligible. Similar to how anyone earning over $20,000 during a year can not get welfare. It someone earns over 4 mil, they can't get SS, because they are too rich. They earned too much money.]
Another annoyance:
The gov't taxes SS checks. That makes absolutely no sense. It's like me giving you $1000 and then saying, "Okay now give me back $100." Say what??? It would make more sense to just give you $900 and be done with it. Handing money, and then taking some of it back, makes zero sense.