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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity...

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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Liberals Can’t Tell the Truth About Social Security Funding
By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, August 11 2011
During the recently concluded debt ceiling debate, prominent liberals like Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) were fond of saying that reforming Social Security was unnecessary because the program “has nothing to do with the deficit.”  Is that true? Here’s an excerpt from an opinion column Senator Sanders wrote on July 21, arguing that Social Security should not be included in any deficit reduction negotiations: “I heard Democrats say that Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.  That is right because Social Security is funded by the payroll tax, not…
 
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