SOCIAL SECURITY CHARGE
Our group is purposing that a price be put on social security cards when a person
either loses their card, changes their name, or if a new baby is born. A big issue in
today's society is social security, if a charge was placed on the replacement of social
security cards, and a charge on the new ones, this would increase the amount of money
that our government will receive. A charge of $5.00 for every card that has to be
replaced, and members needing new cards for babies will be charged $3.00. We feel this
is an all around solution for the lack of income that our social security receives. There
should not be very many non-supporters of this plan because it will benefit everyone at
some point in their lives.
The Federal Insurance Contribution act was passed in 1935 in order to help
relieve the cost of aging. Though it has done its job by providing for the elderly, the cost
of it has grown rapidly. A charge on the replacement of lost cards and distribution of the
new cards could insure survival of social security for our younger generation. Many
groups could be in favor of such a fine. The government, young, old, and new born's
would benefit from this charge. Just like having a fine on a drivers license and paying the
fee everytime it expires, people would pay for the lost or new social security card.
Opponents to this proposal would be few. Families of newborns have a number of bills
to pay, the fine would only ensure their child's future and could relieve some of the
anxiety. There are several political systems that we could introduce this policy to such
as FICA (Federal Insurance Contribution Act). The first step would be to appeal to the
House to get their approval and then appeal to the Senate for their approval also. To
determine the schedule of the relevant Political Processor, we would begin by
administering a pole to he mass media/public through the media. Following the pole, an
interest group would be formed called FISS (Federal Interest of Social Security). Their
function is to support the protection of social security for the next generation. The
relevance of our next step of to gain support from a political figure, perhaps the president,
in hope that he could pass on our ideas to other important political figure such as
congress. For example, the letter would address issues to put into action. We would
explain to the problems that our social security and increase the longevity of social
security for the future. After organizing our previous steps, we now need to plan a time,
place, and date in which we would participate in a government sponsored hearing
through FICA. Once our date is set, the next step is to make sure that it is being
advertised properly through means of media. Now we will assign an accountable
member of our Social Security Board and find a reliable source for an accurate testimony,
who can provide the listeners with an empathizing yet informative view on charging for
social security cards. By giving a public
hearing and providing a testimony, the public is now more informed about FISS and what
it has to offer as well as its motives. Soon the media will also be informed of FISS's
ideas and proposal, which will give the organization a spot in light the general publics
eye, whether it be good or bad publicity. The final and most important step to our
organization, where the groups time and energy will be placed is mobilizing the
presidential election. Gaining support from a presidential nominee, would be a huge step
up for our proposal. The presidential nominee, when in office would select hand picked
leaders who would be put into offices such as the Social Security Board. By gaining
these supports it would almost ensure that our plan be implemented. We will in
exchange, for the presidential nominees support, promise to set up election stations in
each states capital where we would spend time and money, from passing out fliers, to
hold political speeches in favor of our nominees. Our organization understands that a
charge on social security cards would not ultimately solve the problem social security
faces. Our goal is not to solve the problem but cushion it until another plan, one that
changes the main problems of social security can be enforced. Our organization called
FISS ( Federal Interest of Social Security) would include individuals who are concerned
about the future of social security. FISS was established in Temple, Tx. in January 1997.
Since its first appearance, FISS has grown to posses offices in every state, also the
number of members in our organization have doubled in the passed 6 months. Our group
will hold its first meeting in the fall of this year where we will established a basic view on
the si9tuation. We then will hold a meeting where we will ( in writing) propose our view
and vote on the best solution. Next we will send our proposed bill to the House of
Representatives and to the Senate. Some of the conflicts that might be faced would be
that some people would agree to a charge for social security cards, but disagree on a
charge for lost cards. There would be those who have had their card taken or stolen who
do not feel it is a relevant topic, also, those who intend to change their name, could feel
that the charge should apply to them it is possible that the conflicts could get our proposal
shot down in the Senate and in the House. However, we won't give up yet. Our group
will then meet once again to change our proposal to accommodate for the strong
opposition that we will face. Again, we will send the bill back to the House and Senate
where it will again face opposing forces. Our bill will not pass the first few times we
send it, but after gaining more support and after all the changes we will do, we believe
that our proposed solution will become law written in a few years.