Koch Industries: Social Security Age Should Be Raised

WASHINGTON -- Bipartisan negotiators representing the House, Senate and White House continue to haggle over what spending cuts will be demanded in exchange for agreeing to pay past debts. The group is deadlocked on the two key issues, however, as Republicans insist that no tax increases can be any part of an agreement, while Democrats are ruling out cuts to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

A new video by Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films, "The Koch Echo Chamber," puts the GOP position that changes to Social Security ought to be a part of a deficit reduction plan in the context of the Koch brothers' longtime support for conservative and libertarian organizations who argue for such cuts.

Over the years, the Mercatus Center, the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation and Reason Foundation have collectively been given $28 million by the GOP benefactors, the film notes, tying that giving to a subsequent shift in the public conversation as it relates to Social Security.

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