Agree - everyone should pay taxes. What I'm suggesting is leaving the "no taxation on this type of gain [IRA]" and promote it to the entire citizenry as a method of not requiring social security, or not needing to support as many people on social security. The governments job should be to support people being OFF SS based on their own supportive, good choices....

If more people were off SS, then the entire governments budget would go down - which requires less taxation. We've taken the opposite approach.. support consumerism and spending, thus the government taxation and expanding budgets grow higher as our population ages to support a wider group.