Jeff Merkley actually said...

Social Security is only part of the structure in which we help with retirement, and more affluent Americans benefit enormously from tax-shel...

It makes a lot of sense to me, and I encourage all of us to actually act now, rather than waiting.

Is it smarter for us to fix that now and have 11 years in which we boost the Trust Fund, or wait till the last desperate second in 2035?

That is unacceptable that we would be in that position.