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Excerpts from the Washington Post's Editorial "A Phony Lockbox"

June 8, 1999

"The legislation would do nothing to solve the Social Security's financial problem either. The long-term mismatch between prospective revenues and costs would continue to exist. Nor would the bill make any operational change in the shorter run. . . . The lockbox is thus a sham…"

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