You may have misunderstood my comments. I didn't underpay or overpay on my SS withholdings. I often simply reached the cap by June and they stopped "deducting" from my paycheck.I don't "owe" anybody anything...

No, you said you support removing the cap. You are more than capable of voluntarily removing it ... simply write the government a check.

This all goes back to Warren Buffett syndrome. Plenty of people claim they wouldn't mind giving the government more of their money but in reality, they never do.

Some people like to hear themselves claim to be more altruistic than they really are...

Security mostly. I'd like to see stocks/funds get certified by a independent fed. agency as "safe for SS". Possibly have rating for different investments that allow you to invest a higher % if you use "safe for SS" rated investments.

We need to return SSI to it's original intent and end it's entitlement status. That alone would probably fix the problem long enough to carry things until we can work out the bugs on the rest of the plan.

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

God is a conservative -

Ecclesiastes 10:2--"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."

Now wait just a minute...I favor removing the cap and that means I would pay more into it.I also favor the fair tax but that does not mean I am going to start a tax revolution by paying more tax than required when I buy my new lawn tractor.. Your scenario is a bit unfair,one man cannot solve the entire social security problem unless HE IS Warren Buffet...