The Social Security Story That’s Driving Liberals Crazy
The Truth? The Truth? What Matters is what we can sell the voting public!
Politics • October 2011 • Views: 963
The Washington Post’s big Sunday piece on Social Security solvency starts from the premise that the program has crossed a dangerous line. Since 2009, the program has paid out more in annual benefits than it is raising each year in taxes, effectively meaning that the program’s benefits are relying partly the $2.6 trillion in bonds in the program’s “trust funds” to cover checks to senior citizens.