Looking at the current political environment and gaming out the possible actions that could be taken it seems abundantly clear that progressives best course of action on Social Security is to simply refuse to even think about allowing any changes in the program. Progressives should also follow Harry Reid’s advice by sticking to this “just [...]

Progressives should be pointing to this law to show that the founders had no problem with the basic design of the honestly progressive solution of single payer. However, using it to defend the idea of the individual mandate seems to a be a real distortion.

The Washington Post is running a story that Harry Reid is looking into possibly raising the Medicare payroll tax for those making above $250,000 a year: These officials said one of the options Reid has had under review would raise the payroll tax that goes to Medicare, but only on income above $250,000 a year. [...]