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PRESS RELEASE FROM AMERICANS FOR TAX REFORM
Contact: John Kartch ( jkartch@atr.org or 202-785-0266)

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5/18/05

Social Security Fact of the Day
Social Security cannot afford to pay all of the benefits it has promised. Beginning in 2017, it will run cash deficits that get bigger every year.

Many honest opponents of personal accounts realize that in order to fix Social Security permanently without PRAs, they must resort to massive benefit cuts or crippling tax increases. One popular benefit cut is and has been raising the retirement age. The retirement age was raised in 1983, supposedly to “fix Social Security forever.” Without the real guarantee of ownership in personal accounts, though, this became simply the latest benefit cut to get past the next few elections without solving the problem. Raising the retirement age is not the solution to fixing Social Security forever: personal accounts that younger workers own and control are.

Social Security has a problem, and we need to fix it. Personal accounts are the solution.

The Retirement Age Has Gone Up Before, Worsening AnAlready Bad Deal
Source: Social Security Administration

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Americans for Tax Reform is a non-partisan coalition of taxpayers and taxpayer groups who oppose any and all federal and state tax increases.  For more information, or to arrange an interview with Mr. Norquist please contact John Kartch at (202)785-0266 or by email at jkartch@atr.org.