Read columnist Ellen Goodman on a terrific (she calls it "elegant" and she's right!) proposal I hadn't heard about. Referring to the on-the-table permanent repeal of the estate tax, she writes:

A tax repeal on the richest 2 percent of Americans would cost $745 billion in the first 10 years. Using that money to support Social Security instead of an oligarchy would make up a third of the shortfall.