If they dissolved SS today your tax burden would not significantly decrease. The pirates would be right back in your pocket with some other excuse. At least this way a little money trickles down to the working people. Most of the SS money still goes to big money, they are just bent because the little people handle it, dirty it, before it goes home again.

Once again, if jobs were available that paid a living wage SS would work just fine. When the powers that be sent the jobs overseas they knew SS would be underfunded.