Between Worlds, by Bill Richardson: on Social Security

Focus budget reform like Soc. Sec., avoiding future burden

We need to address this profligacy in a bipartisan manner. There is no shortage of strategies--hard spending caps in Congress; an end to certain tax cuts enacted when the fiscal outlook was brighter; a larger overhaul of the federal tax code to build simplicity and equity into the system. I would advocate some combination of these three approaches. But I doubt that Washington can get from here to there without some political cover. This was the job done by Alan Greenspan's Social Security Reform Commission in 1983. I'd set up a commission on taxes and spending. We simply cannot continue to avert our eyes from this gathering crisis.