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A broken budget process and decades of tax cuts have pushed Social Security and Medicare toward insolvency. Credit: iStock

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Bill Scher is the politics editor of the Washington Monthly. He is the host of the history podcast When America Worked and the cohost of the bipartisan online show and podcast The DMZ.

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