Fixing Social Security will not shrink the national debt, or even aid in its shrinkage. And that’s not a defense of Social Security.
It’s just a comment that spending cuts or “entitlement reform” as fixes for the national debt amount to non sequitur. As the title of this piece argues, Social Security is not the cause of the national debt despite what the Washington Post editorial page argued last week, and what the Cato Institute and other right of center think tanks have argued for decades.
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