The discussion over the future of Social Security has once again drifted to the sidelines of politics. With checks going out every month, few voters and fewer candidates are paying attention to the deterioration of the program’s finances as the election draws near.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone because the program as a national political priority has pulled a vanishing act every election year over the past decade. Once again, everything is a crisis to politicians other than Social Security.
While you have likely heard that Social Security pays benefits to nearly 70 million people, there is little talk about the fact that another 30 million people are about to start collecting Social Security benefits over the coming decade. The check is not important to every one of these people, but roughly 40 percent of them will live long enough to see Social Security as nearly their entire…
