Dear “Chained-CPI”: When You’ve Lost the VFW, You’ve Lost America

By Richard Eskow | December 12, 2012

The “chained CPI” is an attempt to camouflage deep cuts to Social Security and other benefits, along with tax hikes on middle class wages (but not for high incomes), in a forest of numbers and terminology.

Know who’s expert at camouflage? Veterans. And a whole lot of their organizations hate the “chained CPI.”