Don't let politicians and pundits say Social Security and Medicare 'reforms' when they mean 'cuts'
by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
Jan 03, 2018
3 minutes
Just before New Year's, economist Jared Bernstein published the second in what may be an annual feature: A plea to the media to call out politicians who try to conceal their intention to gut Social Security and Medicare by talking about "reforms" instead of "cuts."
Bernstein, who served as chief economist for former Vice President Joe Biden, originally raised the alarm about this sort of weaseling a year ago. I seconded the motion then, and do so again now.
One expects politicians to conceal their intentions behind a obfuscating scrim. The problem is that news
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