As far as Social Security is concerned, both Republicans and Democrats still promise to do that.
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Mr Darling said he was sorry that Frank Field had chosen to resign as social security minister.
Democrats refused to cut entitlement programs, such as Social Security and Medicare.
And it will accelerate the long budgetary trend away from discretionary spending towards the mandated sort, such as Social Security.
Adding to the ambiguity, unlike issues such as Social Security or Medicare reform, the politics here aren't clear cut either.
More than half, or 58 percent, said the cuts should be focused on entitlement programs, such as Social Security and Medicare.
Mr. Clement responded to Justice Kennedy that Doma merely defined marriage for the purposes of federal law, such as Social Security benefits.
As important as Social Security is for the nation's retirees, we also need to create the world's best schools for our children.
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This includes the change in unfunded liabilities, such as Social Security obligations.
Toward the end of the next decade, deficits stemming largely from entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare will begin to rise indefinitely.
It is not clear what the legal priority is among the Treasury's obligations, whether contractual such as bond debt or statutory such as social security.
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The balance comes from a combination of investment income like rents and dividends, as well as government payments such as Social Security and disability benefits.
This cheapening of debt effect is also true for the trillions of dollars in unfunded mandates such as social security, health care and government pensions.
Mr Bush has interesting proposals in fields such as Social Security and education, but they remain issues where Democrats are generally more trusted by voters.
The default is for privacy (opt-in) for specific personal details such as Social Security numbers, financial data, or health information, according to Andy Davis, Hollings's communications director.
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Though he pushed through Congress some big changes in government during war, such as price controls, his ability to obtain major domestic programs such as Social Security diminished.
This is spending for benefit programs defined by lawmakers such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and poverty-related programs, as well as spending for civilian and military retirement plans.
But some of his views seem contradictory: for example, he wants to reduce government spending but refuses to consider cuts to areas such as social security for the elderly.
One change Obama has proposed would tighten the adjustment for inflation of benefits such as Social Security, meaning annual increases for future recipients would grow at a slower pace.
It is onerous -- while it does, and it is very important to remember that low-income programs, including Medicaid, as well as Social Security and Medicare benefits would be exempted.
As long as Social Security surpluses are saved in a single giant lockbox managed by the government, politicians are going to face irresistable temptations to raid it to finance other programs.
"Every dollar spent inefficiently in developing and procuring weapons systems is less money available for many other internal and external budget priorities, " such as Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare, the report said.
By the way, the Highway Trust Fund for Transportation is exempted from cuts, as are many other programs such as Social Security, Medicaid, VA and Food Stamps to name a few.
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In our generous society, the bottom fifth does receive a lot of transfer income from government programs, such as Social Security retirement and disability payments, federal, state and local welfare programs, education assistance, etc.
It also included a new formula for the consumer price index applied to benefits for programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to protect against inflation, much to the chagrin of some liberals.
Bowles and Simpson called for tax reform that eliminates or reduces some write-offs and loopholes, reducing spending on Medicare and Medicaid and adopting a less generous inflation formula for entitlements and benefits such as Social Security.
Now, legislators risk looking politically cynical by seeking to weaken the measures enacted to try to force them to confront tough questions regarding deficit reduction, such as reforms to popular entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
For his numbers to add up, not only would discretionary spending need to be slashed from its current level of 7.6% of GDP, but spending on entitlements, such as Social Security and Medicare, would need to be cut too.
What alarms Labour politicians is that voters appear to have stopped thinking of benefits as social security - something they pay into for use in hard times - but rather as a charity handout to the poor, and that this will fatally undermine the welfare state.
Electronic returns don't have to be entered into the system by hand, and the IRS's computers reject any returns with incorrect basic information such as Social Security numbers, birth dates (even of a child) and married names (they must match what is in Social Security records).
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