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To: DavesM who wrote (16746)	5/11/2005 11:55:10 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Respond to of 361390

As a Republican, one of the things I criticized Clinton for was including SS in the budget! My Congressman, Christopher Cox (R-Ca) did the same thing in a 1998 letter: "... the surplus would disappear if Social Security payroll taxes weren't used to pay for other deficit spending. In 1998, Social Security payroll taxes exceeded Social Security benefit payments by $86 billion. If those extra payroll taxes hadn't been spent on other programs, the federal government would have shown a deficit of $16 billion for 1998." policy.house.gov At least I'm consistent. And I never argued that a government should be run like a family or a business, but it should be run responsibly. I don't think we should pass our burden on to our children. Here is another letter from Rep. Cox (1996) stating that he was working "... to protect our children and grandchildren from inheriting a crushing mountain of government debt." policy.house.gov Needless to say, all that fiscal discipline went out the window in 2001.