"Galloway, who earns $16 million annually, believes that Social Security benefits should not be available to people with that much wealth, including himself."

Reagan taught poor people it was unfair to rich people if rich people don't get something back for what they paid in, to Social Security, which is for poor people.

They don't see the problem with that reasoning.

But, they did pay in, so they should get paid out.

I'm fine with taking the lowest of the five highest earning years and reducing the benefit percentage by the amount of income percentage over the cutoff level.

"Another classic case where the government want's full participation on the contribution side but not the distribution side."

Lol not even close.

You only fully participate in the contribution side if your wages are under $168,800.01.

And you only participate in the distribution side if you earned the required minimum wages for forty quarters. Which is why my cousin's family got no survivors benefits from Uncle Sam when he died; he didn't work ten years in the US.

"the court is left with little confidence that the defense can be trusted to tell the truth"

Yeah this needs to be the default judicial temperament to anything the Untied States government says in court.

The United States routinely lies in court. It's a shame it took Trump for judges to finally notice.

"Is anybody serious about this?"

We'll have to wait for the midterms to find out?

People who didn't contribute all year shouldn't get checks all year.

Do the same thing Social Security does now to determine your benefit, which is your max earnings across five years.

Whatever portion of those earnings were above the cutoff for paying into Social Security, your Social Security benefit is reduced proportionately.

Admittedly this would be very bad for people who made tons when they were young and squandered it and never regained those kinds of earnings. So maybe do the last five calendar earning years for such cases.