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Untrustworthy: The Democrats on Social Security reform.
For Social Security reformers, the good news is how quickly the public has moved forward. People have become more receptive to the idea of investing some of their Social Security payments themselves. Exit polls from the 2000 election found that 57 percent of voters supported that reform. The bear market has cut that support, but only a little. The bad news, though, is that reform is going to have to win the backing of a significant number of congressional Democrats to get enacted. And the Democrats-even their best and brightest-are moving backward.
Most liberals have never supported a free-market overhaul of Social Security. In the past, though, many of them were ...
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