Our government should keep Social Security intact so that all Americans can have a stable retirement. Even if it requires raising taxes significantly, or slashing spending on other government programs, the promise of income security in retirement years for every American must be honored. It is immoral and unthinkable to arbitrarily reduce benefits to older Americans because of the financial pressures created by the size of the baby boom generation. Many experts see restoring solvency to Social Security as a fairly simple math problem, in which a combination of small tax increases, benefit cuts, and increases in the retirement age could preserve the program as it is.
Therefore, we should: