Sanders' Social Security 'adjustments' undercut Biden attack

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10. LOL. 'No one's going to believe' Bernie's own words on the subject?

Since you may have avoided reading the OP after seeing the headline:

At the time, the primary legislative fixes to Social Security financing had increased taxes and cut benefits. That includes a major 1983 bill signed into law by Reagan that came as the program was on the brink of insolvency. It raised taxes on working families, froze benefit increases for six months and gradually raised the age at which retirees can receive full benefits from 65 to 67.

During a 1999 press conference, Sanders went further, praising the 1983 law as a good example of people coming together to enact a solution without draconian changes.

“We should remember that in 1982, Social Security was within a few months — a few months — of not being able to pay out all benefits owed to Americans,” Sanders said at the time. “And then people came together and said of course we want to save Social Security. They worked together, and they did.”
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Sanders said during his 1996 campaign that the Social Security system had been “adjusted before, and adjustments will have to be made again.” He declined to say at the time what “adjustments” he supported.

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