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depend on Social Security for at least 90 percent of their income. Cutting Social Security benefits or raising taxes on them would not be asking seniors to do their fair share to reduce the budget deficit. It would be forcing seniors to do their unfair share.
When FDR unveiled Social Security more than half a century ago, it was never expected that trust funds would be counted alongside general tax revenues. They were to be sacrosanct, to pay for this most successful trust program between government and the American worker.
That tradition must continue. Americans, young and old alike, should send a strong, clear message to their elected representatives: “Hands off Social Security.”
Martha A. McSteen, former acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, is president of the almost five million-member National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare..
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