Social Security

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jan 20 09:18:52 PST 1999


When Clinton proposed to use 62% of the budget surplus to "save" Social Security, and another 15% to "save" Medicare, I thought - isn't the surplus now 100% the result of SS/Medicare premiums? So wouldn't using just 77% represent a lesser amount for the rescue than just perpetuating the status quo? Am I missing something?

Doug



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