...$9 trillion over the coming decade... raising to 70 the age at which people can claim their full Social Security benefits... cut farm subsidies, Medicare, student aid, housing subsidies for the poor, and funding for community development grants... proposing that some veterans pay more for medical care and prescription drugs. Coburn was a member of President Barack Obama's fiscal commission and voted for its plan to cut the budget by about $4 trillion over a decade. He recently dropped out of the closely watched "Gang of Six" senators seeking a bipartisan agreement to rein in deficits and break through the partisanship engulfing official Washington over the deficit.Somehow I don't think this will fly -- but it makes an acceptable middle ground the compromise position between Zero's do-nothing approach and Coburn's plan.
Just raise it to 90 and be done with the whole thing. Why not? After all, it's a very progressive thing to do.