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“In Rand Paul’s America, the government really is smaller: Paul cuts the budget of the National Institutes of Health by 20 percent, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by 20 percent, NASA by 25 percent, the Justice Department by 28...

In Rand Paul’s America, the government really is smaller: Paul cuts the budget of the National Institutes of Health by 20 percent, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by 20 percent, NASA by 25 percent, the Justice Department by 28 percent, the Environmental Protection Agency by 29 percent, the Department of Transportation by 49 percent, the National Science Foundation by 62 percent, and the State Department by 71 percent. He gets rid of the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, and the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs. He substantially privatizes both Social Security and Medicare.

via VOX.

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Support for Expanding Social Security Grows & Right-Wingers Panic.

In Vogue: Boosting Social Security.

Source: The Huffington Post
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The economic platform of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is chock full of his libertarian convictions, with top billing for tax cuts, a deep reduction in federal spending, and a balanced budget.
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SOCIAL SECURITY

Paul has called for the partial privatization of Social Security, a program he previously referred to as “a Ponzi scheme.”

He proposes the gradual increase of the retirement age for Social Security recipients and promotes means testing benefits to reduce payouts to high-income retirees.

Paul is also an advocate of reforming the Social Security disability trust fund, which is set to run out of money in 2016.

In January, Paul complained that “over half of the people on disability are either anxious or their back hurts,” according to a recording by American Bridge, a liberal tracking group.

Paul later clarified that, “there are people who are truly disabled, so the program should first of all prioritize those who are truly disabled.”

via Business Insider.

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Rather than acknowledge our national retirement crisis and propose policy prescriptions to improve the ability of average Americans to save for retirement and boost benefits for Social Security and Medicare, policy proposals of most of the Republican Presidential candidates do just the opposite - cut benefits and shift more costs to middle-class families.
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Rather than acknowledge our national retirement crisis and propose policy prescriptions to improve the ability of average Americans’ to save for retirement and boost benefits for Social Security and Medicare, policy proposals of most of the Republican Presidential candidates do just the opposite – cut benefits and shift more costs to middle-class families.
Max Richtman via Entitled to Know.
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Raising Social Security’s Retirement Age Cuts Benefits for All Retirees

Some policymakers, including prominent presidential candidates, have endorsed raising Social Security’s full retirement age to improve the program’s long-term solvency.

Raising the retirement age cuts benefits for all retirees, the cuts could be deep, and they would fall hardest on lower- and middle-income Americans — who rely heavily on their hard-earned Social Security and have not shared equally in recent life expectancy gains.

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While this has a clear meaning to policy wonks, it is likely that most viewers won’t immediately know that “entitlements” means the Social Security and Medicare their parents receive. It’s a lot easier for politicians to talk about cutting wasteful “entitlements” than taking away seniors’ Social Security and Medicare.

Dean Baker via Truth Out.

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A Big Week for Social Security News

This week was a big week for Social Security news. So, I thought I’d make a list of the articles that we have been reading or posting.

  • Social Security Is Having a Moment. - SLATE
    • Until recently, Democrats were willing to bargain on entitlements. Here’s how Social Security expansion became a liberal cause again.
  • In Vogue: Boosting Social Security. - Huffington Post
    • For too long, Washington’s fiscal hawks and conservative ideologues have monopolized the conversation about our nation’s safety net programs.
  • GOP budget targets Social Security, helps corporations. - Canton Daily Ledger
    • Most people know someone who’s benefited from Social Security and related programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. That’s one reason Social Security is so popular. Another is that the programs work.
  • Social Security: The Empire Strikes Back. - Huffington Post
    • The latest wave of attacks was triggered by an amendment from Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Joe Manchin which would have expanded Social Security benefits, and which won the support of most Democrats in the Senate.
  • How Megan McArdle gets Social Security profoundly wrong. - Los Angeles Times
    • With even mainstream Democrats coming to embrace the idea of expanding Social Security to help address our looming retirement crisis, it couldn’t be long before the pushback emerged from conservatives and Republicans. 
  • Support for Expanding Social Security Grows & Right-Wingers Panic. - Entitled to Know
    • This week has seen a wave of attacks by conservative columnists and think-tankers outraged that the call to Boost Social Security benefits is gaining traction on Capitol Hill (it’s already widely supported by Americans of all political persuasions nationwide). 
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“It always makes for a good laugh when Reagan-worshipping Republicans decide to lecture Democrats and the nation about fiscal responsibility and the inevitable insolvency of Social Security, as Sen. Rand Paul did on Friday when he said that Sen....

It always makes for a good laugh when Reagan-worshipping Republicans decide to lecture Democrats and the nation about fiscal responsibility and the inevitable insolvency of Social Security, as Sen. Rand Paul did on Friday when he said that Sen. Bernie Sanders’ plan to expand the program (by extending the payroll tax to higher income levels) would be a “disservice” to the American people. 

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You don’t have to be much of a political sooth-sayer to predict that, given the GOP rush to attack what the party calls “entitlements” (and what everyone else knows are actually earned benefits), tonight’s debate will likely touch on the GOP...

You don’t have to be much of a political sooth-sayer to predict that, given the GOP rush to attack what the party calls “entitlements” (and what everyone else knows are actually earned benefits), tonight’s debate will likely touch on the GOP Presidential candidates’ plans for Social Security and Medicare. 

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Lumping Social Security and Medicare together and calling them ‘entitlements’ is also telling. These are earned benefits, not entitlements, which American workers have contributed to throughout their working lives. Conservatives have long used the word 'entitlements’ to make those earned benefits seem like welfare.
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