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Some “outside-the-box” Thinking about Social Security Reform

As is evident within these pages at the AMAC Foundation’s Social Security information website, as well as in other media outlets, the nation’s treasured senior benefit program, Social Security, is in financial trouble. This is best seen in the annual…

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Social Security’s Solvency Debate Continues

The really good news these days is that Congress is finally waking up to address a problem which we, here at the AMAC Foundation, have highlighted for many years - the Social Security program urgently needs to be reformed!! Even…

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Military Veterans, the VA, Medicare, and Social Security

It’s hard to find someone who doesn’t personally know, or is related to, a veteran of the U.S. Military.  By some calculations, there are as many as 18 million living veterans, or about 6% of the U.S. population. And we…

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“Tax the Rich” viewed as a panacea by some - but will it save Social Security?

Each year, the amount of earnings subject to Social Security payroll tax inexorably increases, causing affluent Americans to pay even more into the Social Security program. To illustrate, the so-called “taxable maximum” for Social Security has increased from $142,600 just…

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Happy Labor Day!!

Labor Day is known as the end-of-summer - a time that began on Memorial Day earlier in the year. This year, as with all other’s, summer is bracketed by these two national holidays. But rather then viewing Labor Day as…

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“Ask Rusty – Must I Enroll in Medicare at Age 65?”

Dear Rusty:  I will be turning 65 next month, I am currently retired and I am not on Social Security. My question is; Is there anything I have to do, if I don’t want Medicare? I am on my wife’s…

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