Senator Hawley On Social Security “Reform”

      From an article in The Hill on the Speaker of the House making a commitment to “address” entitlements next year:

… “That sounds like wealthy people who want to have all of their tax breaks and loopholes and their carried interest deductions and so forth but they want working people who paid into all of those programs for years to take less,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said when asked about the Speaker’s statements about the need to tackle big mandatory spending programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

Hawley says he gets nervous when policymakers talk about the need to “address” or “reform” Social Security.

“Addressed? Reformed? That’s usually code for ‘cut.’ I’m not in favor of that,” he said. …