No One In Congress Championing Cuts To Social Security Disability
From the
Washington Free Beacon:
Though nearly 11 million Americans are collecting disability benefits
from the Social Security Administration (SSA), and its trust fund is
expected to be exhausted by 2016, there is little desire to reform the
programs on Capitol Hill.
“I haven’t heard of any member on the Hill sort of championing
disability insurance reform,” said Chris Edwards, director of tax policy
studies for the Cato Institute, during a briefing Tuesday on the rising
costs of Social Security disability, which will total over $200 billion
this year.
“I agree with that statement,” said Jagadeesh Gokhale, a senior
fellow at Cato. “I think the intensity of the discussion should be much
greater, given how close the system’s trust fund is to expire.” ...
Getting members of Congress on board may be problematic
“Do you want to be the member that has the quote, unquote, ‘disabled’
activists outside of your office protesting?” [Tad] DeHaven said. “It’s like
any other program, you’ve got to be willing to stick your neck out and
you’ve got to be willing to find people to go along.”
“And having worked in the Senate, I don’t see it,” he said.
6 comments:
...ladies and gentlemen, your elected officials! (Applause)
Yeah, how dare they support the continuation of a program with broad and deep appeal among their constituents. They should instead follow the marching orders from the eggheads at the Cato Institute! Freedom!!!
Apparently our fine President thinks we have enough money for military action in Syria. Bombs are really, really expensive... Maybe we should instead use that money to fix things here, like the trust fund!
I think FOX got tired of talking about it, and has moved on to something ells.
Its amazing the kind of trouble you can get yourself into being complicit in the spending of $2.8 trillion of other peoples money. Sooner or later the feds will have to resign themselves to repayment of the trust fund. The easiest way to do that is to agree to do what is right. Namely, scrap the cap and institute a very gradual raise in FICA of one-twentieth of one percent per year for 20 years.
just another example of our representatives abdicating their duty to be responsible with our tax dollars.
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