SOCIAL SECURITY: I haven’t been blogging much on social security reform, but Tom Maguire has been covering the subject like white on rice. And Arnold Kling has more, including this: “In fact, a reasonable test to give each political party is this: what specific proposal do you have for eliminating the Social Security funding gap? If the Democrats propose a specific tax increase plan, such as the Diamond-Orszag proposal (see the analysis by Victor Davis), then they will be acting responsibly. Conversely, if the Republicans were to back away from their proposal to change the indexing formula, they will be acting irresponsibly.”