GOP backs off Social Security income change
Posted on AllSides December 31st, 2012
From The Right
Republicans on Sunday conceded on their demand that any “fiscal cliff deal trim Social Security cost-of-living increases, signaling the end  for now  of their push to reform entitlements in exchange for higher tax rates.
Proponents said they might try to revisit the issue next year, but senators from both parties said they were playing a losing hand when they appeared to be demanding cuts to the federal governments public pensions program in exchange for protecting tax rates for families making more than $250,000.
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