Revenue Bill of 2005

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Define "optionally."  People will have to file with the federal government for their social security checks?

The premise of social security, as stated, is you pay your money into the system and then you get it back when you retire.  This is not a progressive issue, but one of fairness.  People have paid into the system their entire lives, and deserve to get back what they put in.  Sweeping reforms that would repeal taxes on social security for people making such and such an amount of money who have a certain age I could understand.  But arbitrarily saying "up, you don't get your money back" is simply unacceptable.

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Ok.  I'm fine with this.  I look forward to saving a very miniscue amount of money.

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Aye

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Aye.  How much will this save, 500 thousand? Maybe a million?  *shrug* anything that saves money is good.

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Mr. President, what problems do you have with the bill?

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I will refrain from voting until the President makes known himself why he vetoed the bill.

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Nay.