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Evans’ Law of Inadequate Paranoia, evolved through years of brooding on official folly, reads as follows: However bad you think it is, it’s always worse.

Videlicet, the Social Security program, subject of a previous essay in this space [July 8] and also of a recent “Lawmakers” column [Oct. 28]. In these discussions, I passed the word that Social Security was in pathetic shape, replete with googoo level deficits and a resulting need for further mammoth taxes to pay the bills. These comments, it develops, didn’t tell the half of it: the long-term deficit is considerably bigger than the $2-trillion to $7-trillion shortfall to which I have naïvely been referring.

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Evans’ Law of Inadequate Paranoia, evolved through years of brooding on official folly, reads as follows: However bad you think it is, it’s always worse.

Videlicet, the Social Security program, subject of a previous essay in this space [July 8] and also of a recent “Lawmakers” column [Oct. 28]. In these discussions, I passed the word that Social Security was in pathetic shape, replete with googoo level deficits and a resulting need for further mammoth taxes to pay the bills. These comments, it develops, didn’t tell the half of it: the long-term deficit is considerably bigger than the $2-trillion to $7-trillion shortfall to which I have naïvely been referring.