Trump has said he would close Social Security’s long-term shortfall by increasing oil and gas drilling and growing the economy, rather than by raising taxes or making direct benefit cuts.
He has also said we can fix Social Security by doing nothing except kick off the people collecting fraudulent payments especially to the 115 and 125 year olds.
Sadly, many Americans believe him.
The man is a complete…
Over and underpayments occur, other errors are made. There is no mass fraud creating overpayments or depleting the trust fund. Errors are regularly found and fixed. That is what inspectors general do…until Trump fired many of them.,
Data file errors are not payment errors.
None of what Trump claims or suggests will fix social security…
but what he has done with his tax legislation to date has made the situation worse.
His anti-immigration obsession is not helping either as we need to build a younger workforce over the next many years and immigrants are an important source.
QUINNSCOMMENTARY 
I know Trump could take control of the Social Security question and ask for legislation to deal with it. He is apparently not going to do it. George W is the last who tried for a week or two to gather interest in a reform that didn’t fly. I don’t think he had any real grasp of what he was trying to sell. Anyway, my point is that the real legislation needs to bubble up from the House and Senate and be slapped down onto the desk of the President. It won’t be an easy sell because it will require tax increases and other tweaks that will get pushback. That’s when we find out who has the backbone to get the job done.
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