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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (59916)	2/23/2009 2:35:12 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

I think he means its politically impossible, not fiscally impossible. That you would only get enough support for pulling back the growth of the benefits if it was as part of a compromise that included tax increases. I think he might be wrong about that, but its not a totally implausible idea. In the past there have been similar compromises. But IMO the problem is the spending, not the relative balance between SS spending and taxes. The relative balance between all spending and revenue (also known as the budget surplus, balance, or much more likely deficit) does matter, but not so much the relationship between specific forms of taxation and specific areas of spending.