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Beto O`Rourke: 2012: raise retirement age; apply means-testing

During his first run for Congress O'Rourke did a campaign video to tell people that "we'll have to look at future generations retiring at a later age, paying a greater percentage of their income into Social Security and making other necessary adjustments." And, the Wall Street Journal reports, "in a candidate questionnaire published two days before the May 2012 primary, Mr. O'Rourke called for raising the Social Security eligibility age and means-testing federal entitlements." After becoming a congressman, O'Rourke backtracked and, as Politico reports, "co-sponsored legislation that would increase Social Security benefits--without raising the retirement age."
Source: Common Dreams "Reinventing Beto," on 2020 Democratic primary Mar 1, 2019

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