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When I want to know what the dyed-in-the-wool Social Security advocates have to say about the latest development on the Social Security wars and hear it from someone who is at least as plugged in as anyone else on this topic, I check to see what Roger Hickey has to say.
Here’s what he says about AARP’s move today to put Social Security cuts on the table.
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As noted earlier, what was reported this morning in the Journal as a major shift in policy on Social Security by AARP actually isn’t one. What has Social Security advocates steamed is the decision to preemptively give the green light to benefit cuts in the hopes that will encourage anti-tax Republicans to agree to tax increases as part of an overall bargain.
Read all the details here.
Fresh off reports of a decision to play ball on Social Security benefit cuts, AARP releases a statement semi-walking back the story. Read it here.
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