Tom Vilsack has endorsed making Social Security benefits grow with prices, rather than wages–thus stopping them from growing at all, after inflation. He isn’t even talking about doing it in a “progressive” way, with low-income workers shielded from the hit, as President Bush has. So on this issue, he’s to the right of the president, not to mention every other candidate for the presidency in 2008.
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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