10 TRUTHS ABOUT AMERICA’S ENTITLEMENT
PROGRAMS

Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
will cost federal taxpayers $1.9 trillion per year. TRUTH #1

Medicare accounts for more than
25% of all federal debt since 2000. TRUTH #2

In 10 years, the price
for entitlement programs will soar to $ 3.5 trillion. TRUTH #3

TRUTH #4 During the next
17 years, 77 million workers will retire.

TRUTH #5 Beginning in 2034,
Social Security will be unable to pay full benefits. BENEFIT CUT 23%

TRUTH #6 The cost to
make Social Security and Medicare financially solvent for the next 75 years is almost $40 trillion.

TRUTH #7 What Washington spends
on entitlement programs and interest on our debt exceeds what it collects in federal income taxes. DEBT AND ENTITLEMENTS

TRUTH #8 We have nothing
to fear from carefully crafted, phased-in adjustments to our entitlement programs.

TRUTH #9 No mainstream politician
is talking about cutting benefits today, but rather how to restrain the increases in spending.

TRUTH #10 DEBT The biggest
threat to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid as we know them is to do nothing at all.

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