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The $17 Trillion Delusion: The Absurdity of Cutting Social Security to Reduce the Debt

Posted on January 17, 2014

Shortly after the ceiling on federal debt was raised on October 17, 2013, the conservative Heritage Foundation notified its readers that the outstanding debt of the United States had “rocketed past $17 trillion,” and that “entitlement spending—the key driver of spending and debt—remains unaddressed.” The three assumptions in that statement—that the true measure of our […]

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