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GLOOMY REPORTS ON SOCIAL SECURITY ROOTED IN MYTH, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS EXPERT SAYS
March 27, 2008
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., March 27 -- The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign issued the following news release:

Don't trust the glum reports that sprout like cherry blossoms in Washington every spring, forecasting the seemingly inevitable demise of Social Security's trust fund, a University of Illinois law* professor says.

Truth is, the federal retirement program has no trust fund, and there are no artificial limits on what the government can spend to keep . . .

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