Reply #14: Social Security payments have already been reduced.

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Because our unethical gubermint miscalculates inflation (for example by excluding energy and food, just don't move or eat and you'll be fine). The gubermint's inflation rate is what is used to calculate Social Security payments. If the real inflation rate were used, Social Security payments would be almost 70% higher.

http://www.shadowstats.com/cgi-bin/sgs/article/id=343

But stealing from widows, orphans and the disabled is sooo much more preferable than making millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share of taxes. What's the good of being rich if you can't make the poor suffer?