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Where Is the Dollar Defined? To the Editor: I was belatedly reading in the November 2003 issue of Ideas on Liberty when I came across something that caught my eye. This was the statement in George Leef’s book review of Pieces of Eight by Edwin Vieira, Jr., claiming that the Constitution defined a dollar as [...]
6Jul2010 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedAbolishing Social Security–Through REAL Privatization!
If the revenues from the sales of government lands and the accompanying mineral rights were to come even close to their current estimated market values, their privatization would equal the projected present value of all Society Security obligations over the next 75 years.
1Sep2005 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedCreating Capitalists
Nothing is easier than thinking up ways to dispose of other people’s money. Most politicians devote their lives to this activity, but there is a robust amateur division as well. It consists of pundits, professors, and think-tank fellows who focus their energies on turning out endless plans for transferring A’s income to B. The details [...]
1May2005 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedIs Social Security Reform Paternalistic?
One great, and valid, complaint about Social Security is that it is paternalistic: it does things for the individual that he should do for himself. In so doing, it commits the twin transgressions of forcing some people to support others and making the beneficiaries the servile dependents of the state.
1Jan2004 | John Attarian | 1 comment | ContinuedTyrannical Wrecks
Tom Siems is a senior economist and policy advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a board member of the Cato Institute’s Project on Social Security Privatization. Once upon a time, there lived a small herd of dinosaurs that longed for freedom and individual opportunity. To pursue that dream the small herd left [...]
1Jan2002 | Tom Siems | 0 comments | ContinuedIf Rates of Return Matter, Social Security Is a Goner
When President Clinton called for “a national conversation” on Social Security a few months ago, he probably didn’t expect that privatizing the whole thing would quickly become the talk of the country. But that’s exactly what has happened. The new national willingness to explore options that previously were politically untouchable now seems so promising that [...]
1Sep1998 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 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 | ContinuedThe Big Lie: What Every Baby Boomer Should Know About Social Security and Medicare by A. Haeworth Robertson
Retirement Policy Institute • 1997 • 137 pages • $24.95 John Attarian is a freelance writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Author A. Haeworth Robertson has fought the good fight for decades. Upon becoming Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration (SSA) in 1975, he began trying to dispel misunderstandings of Social Security by both the [...]
1Jan1998 | John Attarian | 0 comments | ContinuedSingle Policy Change, Double Economic Growth?
“Shifting to a pro-savings, pro-investment economic policy can lift the economy over the next few years to a long-term growth rate of 3% or more.” —Business Week, July 8, 1996 The establishment journal Business Week is typically pro-government and skeptical of free markets, but in the July 8, 1996, cover story, “Economic Growth: A Proposal,” [...]
1Nov1996 | Mark Skousen | 0 comments | ContinuedRestoring Hope in America: The Social Security Solution and Let’s Get Rid of Social Security: How Americans Can Take Charge of Their Own Future
Dr. Attarian is a freelance writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Most Americans now realize that when the huge Baby Boom generation retires, supported by a slower-growing Baby Bust taxpaying workforce, Social Security will go broke. Proposals are emerging to avert disaster, with most, like those here reviewed, entailing some privatization. National Development Council chairman Sam [...]
1Sep1996 | John Attarian | 0 comments | ContinuedThat Taxing Time of Year Again
Mr. Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology (Transaction). Despite their extended budget wrangling, the two major parties agree on one thing: Social Security is sacrosanct. Taxpayers are suffering as a result. Today government takes more in payroll than income taxes from [...]
1Apr1996 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued-
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