Social Security
As more and more baby boomers approach retirement, this is going to become bigger and bigger as an issue. This topic explores all aspects of that issue.
Social Security's $700,000 Resort Meeting and Our Future
by Jake Towne, the Champion of the Constitution (libertarian)
Published: July 20, 2009
"You can't get corporate jets. You can't go take a trip to Las Vegas, or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers' dime." - Barack Obama, February 2009
Flat Tax? We already have one!
by Gene DeNardo (libertarian)
Published: June 5, 2009
We have had a flat tax in America for going on 70 years. How is it working?
Dave Ramsey, Cato Institute's 6.2% Plan, and Transforming Social Security
by Paul Benedict (libertarian)
Published: March 5, 2009
CATO Institute's 6.2% plan for privatizing Social Security provides the most savings of all those examined by Social Security's actuaries. Comparing the CATO plan to one which applies Social Security taxes to primary residences illustrates the superior power of this second strategy to rescue America from its debts.
How Bernanke Should Have Answered Dodd
by Paul Benedict (libertarian)
Published: February 25, 2009
When Chris Dodd assailed the ever erudite Bernanke on privatizing Social Security, the banker had no notes on hand so he apologized for the idea instead. America needs to answer Dodd before the government raises Social Security taxes and lowers benefits again. Applying Social Security payroll taxes to primary residences is the way to go.
Ending Social Security by Applying Payroll Taxes to Primary Residences
by Paul Benedict (libertarian)
Published: February 21, 2009
Because Social Security is a Bernard Madoff style Ponzi scheme, if we can end Social Security today and allow participants to invest the payroll tax in their primary residences this generation pay off the promises to the baby boomers and retire with even greater wealth than those whose bills it will have paid. Do the math yourself.
How to End Social Security in Our Lifetime -- Jack Kemp Style
by Paul Benedict (libertarian)
Published: February 15, 2009
When the Berlin Wall fell and the engines of free enterprise became the models of prosperity, Jack Kemp urged America to look in its own back yard. After ignoring Jack Kemp, America tried other ideas. We've come full circle. Thanks to ACORN the renewal of our inner cities have been dealt the worst setback in a generation.
Ending Social Security with the Youth Vote
by Paul Benedict (libertarian)
Published: February 13, 2009
There are three direct challenges to serious Social Security transformation: the twenty-two trillion dollars we now owe to those at or near retirement age, interpreting for the American public the twenty-two trillion in terms of inflation over twenty years, and an atmosphere of distrust for large financial institutions of investment that is at least equal to, or greater than that faced in FDR's age. These challenges must be met with a bold tranforming proposition that gives young voters a path to financial freedom only a decade away.
Financial Stimulus, Bank Bail Outs, and Ending Social Security
by Paul Benedict (libertarian)
Published: February 4, 2009
The median American family, after forty years, will receive benefits from Social Security that are only a few thousand dollars more than the federal poverty level. If, instead, we ended Social Security today, not only would the ultimate retirement benefits, on interest alone, be almost double those of the Social Security, but we would bail out the banks and stimulate the economy.
Social Security and Bernie Madoff Style Pain
by Paul Benedict (libertarian)
Published: January 27, 2009
If Americans decided tomorrow that they wanted to be rid of Social Security forever, it would cost them about twenty trillion dollars over the course of a generation. It would cost about a trillion dollars a year, every year for over twenty years... and that's in a good economy.
Social Security, Ponzi Schemes, and the Bush Bullet We Didn't Dodge
by Paul Benedict (libertarian)
Published: January 21, 2009
This is the first of several articles proposing a different solution to the problems of social security in America. Many believe that we dodged a bullet when the congress refused to take up social security reform during President Bush's second term. As bad as investing in Wall Street has been since 2004, the outlook for social security is at least as bad.
Ron Paul And The Fear Factor
by Scott from Oregon (libertarian)
Published: December 21, 2007
Fear of change, or a change of fear?
Social Insecurity, Part II
by Walt Thiessen (libertarian)
Published: October 4, 2007
In the first article of this series, I made the case that Social Security is a broken system that requires a pressure release valve, in the form of an opt-out provision. In this second article, I show in greater detail just how bad a deal Social Security is for individuals like you and me.
Social Insecurity
by Walt Thiessen (libertarian)
Published: September 24, 2007
The Bush administration can't even handle this issue right. We need an opt-out system, and we need it quick.
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