yeah, that will stand up in court. Really the people who put that in there should be fired. It will only end with a lawsuit and bad PR

I got one
"lets skip the prison rape ones."
oh, never mind.

A) SS isn't going anywhere, nor is it in fiscal jeopardy
B) You have no kids. You should the putting a hell of a lot more money away.
Talk to experts.

All that sows is that people are healthier from 56-76.
The average life expectancy for people who lived past 5 hasn't change much at all since 1930. People are healthier.
This whole people are living longer excuse to shove out the retirement age is nothing be a baseless attack on social security the pubs have been mindless jabbering about since SS inception.

That is, in theory, a good idea. But for a third party to play a meaningful role, the first thing that would have to change is that first-past-the-post had to be abandoned. Else, all the effort you take to establish a third power will be void soon, history shows that a potential third power immediately results in one of the former two powers becoming irrelevant quickly and the power you established replacing it, resulting in a new, but by no means different, two party system.

The only ones that could change the system itself are, though, exactly the same entities that have no interest at all in changing it. If there is one thing that two parties in a FPTP system agree on, independent of possible differences, is that the system is great. Because it does exactly what is in their interest, ensure that they have only one potential competitor instead of many. And eventually the two competitors become so similar (for the simple reason that they want to appeal to as many voters as possible, I can get into detail but I guess it's self explanatory why the two parties become very similar over time) that it doesn't really matter which one you support.

The system ensures that you have two near identical groups to choose from and both of them have no interest in changing the election system to one that allows more variety in the political landscape.

The main reason that it works for most of Europe is that few countries in Europe actually have a first-past-the-post system in place. Coalitions are very common in most European countries, with parties needing usually between 3 and 6 percent of the votes to make it into parliament. And it's far from impossible that such comparably small parties can become part of the government if a big party needs just a few more seats to get a working majority. That's why the Greens actually made it into governments in Europe.

And now tell me how this should possibly happen in the US.

To someone who understand how Social Security actually works, reading slashdot post form people who have no clue is like fingernails on a chalkboard.

well, by retiring I take it to mean not sitting at the stupid cube and being able to do what I want. whether that's surfing, or doing some fun consulting work.

not Never! more like never :(

Stupid finance companies collapsing and taking my money.

I know, I saw that hair and I could here the Ozone weep!
EEEsh. I never understand why people wold spend that much time on hair.

"The amazing thing is that the IRS today is no more efficient then it was in the 1950s before any computerization."
false, by every measure.

I'm not sure what Australia has to do with the IRS.

That software does not interpret tax code.
It is the implementation of the tax rules and written by people who need to understand the tax code.

hahahahahahaha.. you should look at some of the tax laws prior to 1960.

"No human could ever interpret and correctly follow tax law as it sits right now."
humans do that now so they can write code to make filing easier.

What are you going on about?

Don't be so irrational.

Actually we could work out ballistic trajectories just fine before automated computing.