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The real third-rail of Social Security should not be cutting benefits or raising taxes, but instead it should be political suicide to keep doing nothing, said Sen. Bill Cassidy in a video discussion with the Bipartisan Policy Center on Tuesday. The Louisiana Republican took on both 2024 lead presidential candidates, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, for not providing solutions to the projected Social Security shortfall now expected by 2034. And then he put forth his “big idea” for creating an investment trust via Congress that would generate enough growth to cover the missing funds.
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