Lone Star Democracy Builders Association

The Statesman had an article today about private social security and women. Since women are more likely to leave the salaried workplace (whether permanently or just temporarily) than men, reducing the social security guarantees hurts them harder than men.

In messaging this to conservatives, one might ask "why are they changing the rules to make it riskier for mothers that work at home?"

[Ok, things get more complicated with the spousal benefits, especially if there's a divorce. But the R solution to that is to have the private accounts be part of the estate to be split at the time of divorce. And I thought the R's didn't like lawyers.]