"Common sense tells us that rather than waiting to have Congress make very significant changes to the Nation's retirement program every thirty years or so to put it back into actuarial balance, it would be preferable to have minor changes made on a more frequent basis.... [A]utomatic adjustments to the system's tax and/or benefit structure [would] maintain the system's actuarial balance.... This is what is done in almost all financial programs funded using basic actuarial principles."

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