Opinion: Proposal by the President's Social Security Commission Whittles A

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Opinion: Proposal by the President's Social Security Commission Whittles Away at Income Support
Excerpt: "The White House has signaled that it supports the key proposal by President Bush's 2001 commission on Social Security to freeze future growth in Social Security benefits by fixing them to current living standards. This is a change from the current law, which increases benefits to reflect the life time earnings of future workers. Because American workers' pay will most likely grow faster than inflation in the future, this change would steadily lower the share of income that ...." (Economic Policy Institute)

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1. Tell them to index it directly to Congresses retirement plan

I am willing to take the same cuts they are willing to suffer through.