And most of them don't think they would be able to save enough money to retire on if Social Security no longer existed.
First, she argues, Social Security is no longer the financial winner it once was.
That's why in his rhetoric, and that of his allies, Social Security is no longer an issue but a crisis.
That is because the personal accounts rely on real savings and investment, while Social Security involves no savings and investment, but just all tax and redistribution.
The Chief Actuary scores the bill as eliminating all future deficits of Social Security, with no benefit cuts or tax increases, assuring that all Social Security benefits will be paid.
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On these shores, Bundyism is a handy discovery for politicians who want to promise fat Social Security benefits with no tax increases.
Although the Social Security Statement is no longer mailed out annually, you can still request it online at www.socialsecurity.gov .
It isn't possible to take Social Security and say no to Medicare.
Senior advocates, such as the AARP, have been lobbying for the payments, in part because Social Security recipients received no cost of living increase this year, for the second year in a row.
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More fundamentally, the aged have been misled for two generations into believing that Social Security payments constitute no more than a return to them of the payroll taxes that they have paid during their working years.
Dr. Jose Katz, of Closter, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and an unrelated count of Social Security fraud for giving his wife a yearslong no-show job, making her eligible for Social Security.
The greater point is that if the federal government loses some of our Social Security savings, or simply achieves lousy returns, we have no legal right to empty our Social Security accounts in favor of outside managers.
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This is an economic crisis, but its economic and social security implications are potentially no less profound.
Nowadays of course, with state-organised social security, people are no longer dependent on their families in the same way.
And I would note that the Ryan Budget contains no Social Security reform.
But there was no Social Security Administration record of Kekua's death.
Members of Congress are talking about reducing the cost of living adjustment for Social Security, and it no longer seems to be such a political taboo.
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An average annual real GDP growth rate of 3.5% would make all of the financial problems of Social Security disappear, with no tax increases and no changes in benefits.
Te'o's grandmother did in fact die in September, according to Deadspin, but there is no Social Security Administration record of the death of the athlete's supposed girlfriend, described as a Stanford University student.
How can they get the top 1 percent of Americans a tax cut large enough to essentially fix Social Security and then turn around and say, "Oh, we have no choice but to cut Social Security benefits"?
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And, Social Security is perceived to have no risk of default.
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Some workers could be automatically enrolled into mutual funds that are too conservative or too risky for their liking, or they could assume that their 401(ks) are another form of Social Security that will be guaranteed no matter what the return of the stock market.
There is no doubt that Social Security will now become a dominant issue in the campaign.
And, btw, no one at Social Security checks whether you are living together let alone sleeping together.
There would be no change in Social Security benefits under current law for those who make this choice.
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You also advocate the privatisation of Social Security, while paying little or no attention to what happens to people whose investments, through bad choices or bad luck, don't prosper.
It will be in addition to the accumulation in the Social Security trust fund that would occur with no change in the current law.
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