Why Not Raise The Retirement Age? Ctd

by Patrick Appel

Bruce Bartleet makes some valid points:

[R:]aising the normal retirement age won't do much good because 62
become the de facto normal retirement age. We will have to raise
early retirement age if we want to save money this way.

There aretwo other points I didn't have space to make that are important. First,I think many people who take early retirement foolishly have ause-it-or-lose-it attitude; they don't realize that benefits rise thelonger one waits. I think many also...