Editor,
I am writing so that all constituents understand the proposed changes to Social Security outlined in Project 2025, the treatise from the Heritage Foundation (and the Hungarian Danube Institute, Victor Orbon’s favorite group). Project 2025 is the blueprint for the next Republican presidency.
Project 2025 says it will “save” Social Security, but what does that mean? It means the administration will protect the existing fund from which benefits are paid. We know the fund will be insufficient to pay full benefits by around 2034 so the “protection” means raising the retirement age to 70 and reducing the amount of individual benefit.
What has the Biden administration committed to? Assuring the size of the fund grows so that it will continue to pay full benefits to all eligible retirees and not “prop it up” by raising the age of retirement.
It is essential to remember that Social Security is not an entitlement; it is an earned benefit, funded by the contributions of workers over their lifetimes. Any attempt to diminish it undermines the social contract that has been a foundation of our society.
Which plan sounds better to you? I’m a retiree. I can’t afford a cut to my benefits. What about you?
Pamela Pride
Olympia
