Preserving and strengthening Social Security for Washington State
From the Columbia Journalism Review What Social Security means to real people Jennifer Tayabji is the kind of person that Alan Simpson [a member of the president's deficit commission] likes to talk about. She's young, and fits his conception of some retiree’s grandchild. As the former Wyoming senator likes to say, we have to fix …
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From Politico: Democrats are warning President Barack Obama that the fiscal commission he created to help solve the country’s budget problems needs to keep its hands off Social Security. “You have charged the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with proposing recommendations that improve the long-term fiscal outlook and address the growth of entitlement …
Via Off the Charts Blog: By Paul N. Van de Water Here are the facts. Social Security is a well-run, fiscally responsible program. People earn retirement, survivors, and disability benefits by making payroll tax contributions during their working years. Those taxes and other revenues are deposited in the Social Security trust funds, and all benefits …
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