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If George W. Bush’s/John McCain’s views on Social Security of a couple of years ago had been national policy, your retirement could have shared in this meltdown. What’s in your 401K/IRAs?
McCain’s Social Security positions are historically quite labile, and currently incomprehensible. He recognizes that demographically the working/retired population ratio is shrinking, asserts that the [...]
Archive for the ‘Social Insecurity’ Category
September 16th, 2008
by Michael O'Hare
Category: Social Insecurity
Posted: Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at
12:52 pm
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September 18th, 2005
by Michael O'Hare
Category: Social Insecurity
The discussion of rebuilding New Orleans, either where it is or in some better location, may be a special case of a problem that deserves more study. It happens occasionally that a largish region loses its economic raison d’�tre, something that can happen because of technological change, depletion of an extractive resource, or [...]
Posted: Sunday, September 18th, 2005 at
9:42 pm
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August 2nd, 2005
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Social Insecurity
Yes, let’s have them, but not as part of Social Security. Instead, let’s spend the tax subsidy on IRAs,401(k)s, and the like to fund individual retirement accounts for every worker.
Posted: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005 at
4:19 pm
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May 1st, 2005
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Social Insecurity
Yes, the poor lose less than the middle class. Is that supposed to be the good news?
Posted: Sunday, May 1st, 2005 at
10:56 pm
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January 6th, 2005
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Social Insecurity
The proposal is to cut benefits because retirees don’t deserve to share in economic growth.
Posted: Thursday, January 6th, 2005 at
8:03 pm
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December 30th, 2004
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Social Insecurity
“If we want to gamble, we’ll play the slots.”
Posted: Thursday, December 30th, 2004 at
9:50 am
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December 27th, 2004
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Social Insecurity
Bush’s Social Insecurity plan means bringing back the good old days when old people worried about outliving their money.
Posted: Monday, December 27th, 2004 at
2:12 pm
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December 14th, 2004
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Social Insecurity
If we had to, we could set up Social Security as a separate legal entity. That would end the silly argument about whether the Trust Fund is real.
Posted: Tuesday, December 14th, 2004 at
12:33 pm
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December 14th, 2004
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Social Insecurity
Is the military bankrupt? Yes, by the standards the Social Insecurity fraudsters want to apply to the pension system.
Posted: Tuesday, December 14th, 2004 at
12:14 pm
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December 13th, 2004
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Social Insecurity
I proclaim the new official name of the Bush plan.
Posted: Monday, December 13th, 2004 at
10:31 pm
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