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Article: Our views: ; Social Security; Bush's plan would avoid tax hikes; Gore would let the problem fester
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- May 17, 2000
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ACTUARY upon actuary has warned that Social Security will go
broke by the time today's 30-year-olds retire. George W. Bush wants
to fix the problem. Al Gore ignores the problem and hopes it will go
away. Gore's approach helps explain why, in the last seven years,
the estimate of the deficits the program will face has grown from
$1.8 trillion to $2.9 trillion.
Yet Gore had the nerve to tell the New York Times in March: "I
say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Shore it up the way we always
have."
Earth to Al Gore: Social Security is broken.
Furthermore, "the way we always have" is Democratic code for 21
tax increases in 37 years. Social Security tax now takes $1 of every
$8 that low- and ...