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> primarily reducing social security payments (particularly when most of the boomers are drawing on them)

Disagree. Removing the payroll cap for social security taxation causes Social Security to become solvent permanently [1].

> and cutting medical spending - probably by instituting controls on what the government will pay for in terms of end-of-life care.

Sort of agree. The US needs to go single payer, and institute price controls on health services.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/what-impact-would-e...



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