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7 Reasons Sen. Warren’s Social Security Plan Will Fail
Sean Williams of The Motley Fool takes aim at Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) plan to increase beneficiary payouts by $200 a month, or $2,400 a year. Her plan would also update a number of rules, and set minimum monthly benefits at 125% of the federal poverty level and end the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset facing selected public sector workers. Warren would alter the inflationary adjustment from the current Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) to a new Consumer Price Index for the Elderly (CPI-E). With the program currently headed for insolvency, new spending creates still more problems long term, according to Williams. But the plan’s failure to address longevity and demographic issues already putting strain on Social Security is its greatest weakness. Read full piece here.
The Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) takes a different approach. AMAC believes Social Security must be preserved and modernized. This can be achieved by making modest changes in cost of living adjustments and the retirement age, with no additional taxes on workers. AMAC advocates for a bipartisan compromise, “The Social Security Guarantee Act,” taking selected portions of bills introduced by former Rep. Johnson (R-TX) and current Rep. Larson (D-CT) and merging them with the Association’s own well researched ideas. One component is Social Security PLUS, a new, voluntary plan that would allow all earners to have more income available at retirement. This component is intended to appeal especially to younger workers. AMAC is resolute in its mission that Social Security be preserved and modernized and has gotten the attention of lawmakers in DC, meeting with a great many congressional offices and their staffs over the past several years. Read AMAC’s plan here.
Lets all agree that Elizabeth Warren deserves to be the next Democratic Presidential Candidate and possibly the next President of the United States. She has a plan and its also a very detailed and intelligent plan. This for me is enough to hope that the future can be better in the USA for lower income people and woman, and everyone who needs a little extra help. When we help raise up people to live better then we are making this country a better place for everyone.