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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: TimF who wrote (2697)11/3/2007 4:20:05 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Respond to of 42652
 
The 1972 amendments featured a twenty percent increase in benefit levels and the beginnings of benefits indexed to the rate of inflation.

"journalist Mark Sullivan wrote, money collected in Social Security taxes "may be spent for any legal purpose under the sun and in practice they are now being used to help the Government's current bills." He wrote in the 1930s but could as easily be writing today."