Something I neglected to properly slag on in the column linked below: I referenced in that piece an Economic Policy Institute brief purporting to show how dependent we all are on Social Security by showing what a large percentage of the income of benificiaries it constituted. But, of course, you start getting Social Security when […]

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Will’s post gets at it more clearly than mine below, so you can skip the scroll-down and just click through.

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Here’s a letter Yglesias and I both got in response to my Social Security column yesterday and Matt’s comments at TalkingPointsMemo: A reductio ad absurdum argument that I believe strongly counters Mr. Sanchez’s argument that Social Security not be considered an insurance program, mentioned critically by you in TPM: “Neither is the notion of health […]

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