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Dems scramble to perpetuate deceptive Social Security accounting
If it’s left unreformed, over 10 million recipients of Social Security’s disability insurance will have their benefits arbitrarily cut by 20 percent near the end of 2016. Many Democrats want to sweep the problem under the rug with an accounting gimmick that would merge the disability trust fund with the general Social Security trust fund, which, on paper, isn’t expected to be depleted until 2034. But House Republicans passed a rule Tuesday to protect the broader Social Security program from being raided….Read More
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