From the Los Angeles Times: By Nancy Altman and Eric Kingson Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, the co-chairs of President Obama's deficit commission, have signaled for months that they are not friends of Social Security. In August, Simpson, a former Republican senator from Wyoming, wrote that Social Security is "a milk cow with 310 million …
Tell Congress: Don’t Carve Up Social Security
The Co-Chairs of the National Fiscal Commission have proposed carving up Social Security like a Thanksgiving turkey. They want to increase the retirement age to 69 – making us work longer, deeply cut benefits for middle-class workers and reduce annual Cost of Living Adjustments. We need your help to stop them! Join thousands of Americans …
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Deficit commission fishing for ways to raise the retirement age
Via Washington Policy Watch: Fishing season is open, so it may be no coincidence that a recent federal deficit-cutting proposal includes this whopper: cut Social Security benefits by raising the retirement age to 68. Like fish left out too long, this one smells funny. And no wonder: More than 50 million Americans rely on Social …
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