Means test

Now, I don't need magic 8-ball on this.

You ever hear of means testing? Republicans have been floating this for the last 20 years.

You know, Social Security isn't viable.

It's coming to an end.

Yeah.

But now, because we have this 2032...

Oh, let's go back to means testing.

Sorry.

I mean, there's a better way you could do that.

Instead of means testing, whether you get a full COLA increase.

And in fact, most folks said that the CPI is actually undercounts the inflation rate for elderly folks because they pay for health care and for medicine that increases.

And this is why we call for

So maybe if you're like incredibly wealthy, do you really need like Social Security or college education funding the same? Like probably not.

You can probably afford to pay for it.

So then you introduce this concept called means testing, where what you do is you say, OK, well, if you make so much money or whatever, maybe your benefits don't increase.

Like you don't need it.

that.

Instead of means testing, whether you get a full COLA increase.

And in fact, most folks said that.

COLA is cost of living adjustment, by the way, for those of you who are also wondering what that term means.

You can

just ask people more.

You don't have to create an apparatus to measure any type of like it means testing or whatnot.

But OK.