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> Cutting the military budget is the last war.
> The priority now, I would suggest, is preventing
> the segregation of Social Security trust fund
> surpluses into a separate fund. This will mean
> that instead of looking forward to $1.5 trillion
> of budget surpluses over the next ten years, we
> will see little or no surpluses in the so-called
> "on-budget deficit", and hence will need
> to get political support for tax increases if we
> are to have any expansion of public spending.
This is news to me. Is somebody pushing to get Social Security out of the "unified" budget?