Are Social Security and Medicare in trouble?

[John Dibble]

Make them both optional - if you don't wish to pay into them, you shouldn't have to, but you wouldn't get benefits. Legalize marijuana(and maybe other drugs) and put a federal sales tax on it to pay for outstanding costs until such time that the systems can sustain themselves again.

[John Dibble]

I don't even see the point to making them optional. Just honor all the payments people have already made, and future generations can do what they want.

Isn't that making it optional? Doing what you want - going with it or not going with it.