All Posts Tagged With: "privatize Social Security"
A New Deal for Social Security by Peter Ferrara and Michael Tanner
Cato Institute • 1998 • 264 pages • $19.95 cloth; $10.95 paperback In 1980 Peter Ferrara produced the path-breaking critique Social Security: The Inherent Contradiction. Now he and the Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner ably update his exposition of Social Security’s flaws and offer a thought-provoking solution. Social Security is a federal “social insurance’‘ program paying [...]
1Jan2000 | John Attarian | 0 comments | ContinuedSecurity or Friedman
True joy is waking up to a Milton Friedman op-ed. He never quits. In January the New York Times published his article “Social Security Chimeras.” What a breath of fresh air! Milton Friedman begins by criticizing the increasingly common suggestion that individual accounts replace part of each person’s Social Security benefits. “Why replace only part [...]
1Apr1999 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | ContinuedAx Business Welfare and Privatize Social Security
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnists, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. The president and Congress have promised a balanced budget by 2002, but a recent poll found that just 17 percent of Americans [...]
1Mar1998 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedWill Retirement Become a Personal Responsibility?
With Social Security benefits projected to exceed the system’s revenues within 15 years, young Americans are increasingly skeptical that the government will take care of them when they reach their mid-sixties. That’s a healthy development because in a free society, responsibility for one’s retirement is too important to relinquish to the vagaries of politicized programs. [...]
1Dec1997 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedGovernment-Mandated Insecurity
Mr. Wilson is a freelance writer in Fairfax, Virginia. As a 22-year-old still paying off college debts, I may seem a bit premature in worrying about my retirement. Then again, how could I not? Every payday, more than 15 percent of my check is siphoned away, ostensibly to ensure that I have an income when [...]
1Apr1997 | Tadd Wilson | 0 comments | Continued-
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