Showing posts with label social security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social security. Show all posts

The Social Security "crisis"

Friday, June 1, 2012

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities notes that the long-run deficit in Social Security is almost precisely equal to the cost of extending the Bush tax cuts for upper-income taxpayers.



Anyone who argues that Social Security is unsustainable in its current form should also be willing to say that we cannot afford to extend the Bush tax cuts.