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Highlighting Legislative Inertia on Social Security Reform
The term “inertia” refers to the natural tendency for objects at rest to remain at rest. Thinking about Social Security reform as an “object,” then, implies that action on corrective measures to ward off the catastrophe projected to hit beneficiaries in less than a decade may be subject to some impedance. That’s the theme of a post by Washington Examiner reporter Zach Halaschak titled “Social Security Stakes: Why efforts to stave off exhaustion have fizzled out.”
Mr. Halaschak’s post highlights that “Voters are worried about the program’s survival, but any politician seeking to ensure it’s upheld will quickly encounter resistance.” He discusses the stymied efforts by House Speaker Mike Johnson to create a bipartisan fiscal commission to address the long-term Social Security finance problem, as well as the 2024 presidential candidate positions on near-term reform. The dichotomy noted in the post is that despite concrete attention to the problem, Associate Press reports that Social Security has ranked ahead of abortion and immigration in the minds of those searching for information on the election cycle.
Read Mr. Halaschak’s post in full here…