I love Social Security. I hate reading myths about it.
Everyone has a fact that is someone else’s myth. The
arguments for and against quickly devolve into academic waterboarding in
which how we count the beans becomes more important than the actual number of
beans. In every myth, there is invariably some technical definition hidden in
the nomenclature.
The only way to sort out the difference is to conduct the
research yourself to sort out what the myth is actually saying. Last month, the
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released a list of 9
myths. Weeks later, Alicia H. Munnell rebutted that list in a MarketWatch
piece.
This piece (“The
Dueling Myths of Social Security”) explains what is hidden in the lexicon.
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