Thursday, August 14, 2003

Kerry’s bold stance on Social Security: “We should do...um…something.”

If you read between the lines of this Boston Globe article, you can smell the flop sweat of Senator AWOL as he’s confronted by a question on Social Security. Some fool Iowan asked him how he would fix the system that is destined for insolvency once the baby boomers retire. His answer:

1.) Stop paying Social Security to “rich” people
2.) Increase the income cap that is taxable from the current maximum of $86,000

What income level should we raise the cut-off so that Social Security can be saved?

"Maybe people ought to pay up to $100,000 or $120,000, I don't know," the senator said.

O principled leadership, thy name is Kerry!

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