Tag: Table V.C7

Two businessmen handshaking in meeting

CBO “flap” shows SSA numbers weren’t so bad after all.  So as to not lose my few remaining readers, I would like to wind up the discussion of Social Security replacement rates.  And I think that I can do that on a positive note.  The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) “flap,” where the agency admitted that…

View from a rifle scope overlooking a forest

SSA study shows that CBO numbers cannot be right. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has become a major player in the effort to show that Social Security is very expensive – huge 75-year deficit – and very generous – extraordinarily high benefits relative to pre-retirement earnings (replacement rates).  These two developments together set the stag…