Social Security
Hard to Take a Bone from a Dog
John Browne | 26 June 2011
As the American leadership begins to grapple with very large issues of entitlement reform in "sacred" programs such as Medicare and Social Security, many may recoil from the task once the fangs begin flashing.
As the American leadership begins to grapple with very large issues of entitlement reform in "sacred" programs such as Medicare and Social Security, many may recoil from the task once the fangs begin flashing.
The Extinction of Retirement
Michael Pento | 25 June 2011For years the essential Ponzi-like structures of Social Security and Medicare were concealed behind positive demographics. But once taxes collected from current payers fall short of the required distribution owed to current recipients, the ruse will be laid bare.
America's Shift to the Left
Michael Hurd | 20 June 2011Before a government will change, a culture must change. America must get rid of Obama but, even more importantly: Americans must rid themselves of the stupid, childish and nonsensical ideas that enabled such a fool to be elected in the first place.
Social Security Cannot -- And Should Not -- Be Saved
Michael Hurd | 23 February 2011Most people assume that government takes your money from you when you're younger only to give it back to you, with interest, when you're older. Now why would government go to all this trouble? You can do this yourself. And if the motive were merely paternalistic, government would simply pass a law requiring you to save for your old age.
Happy Birthday Social Security?
Neeraj Chaudhary | 19 August 2010Social Security is the largest social program in the world, making up over 40% of all federal spending.
Government Plans to Loot Your Retirement Account
Sylvia Bokor | 24 March 2010The EBSA Proposed Rules is undisguised looting of employer and employee alike.
The National Ponzi Scheme
Walter Williams | 4 February 2009Social Security is unsustainable because it is not meeting the first order condition of a Ponzi scheme, namely expanding the pool of suckers. Social Security has been one congressional lie after another since its inception.
The Future of Social Security?
Paul Hsieh | 18 November 2008Eventually, the current Ponzi scheme is going to go bankrupt.
Retire Social Security: Social Security Is Morally Bankrupt
Alex Epstein | 14 August 2008We should be debating, not how to save Social Security, but how to end it--how to phase it out so as to best protect both the rights of those who have paid into it, and those who are forced to pay for it today.
Don't Save Social Security
Alex Epstein | 19 November 2007If Social Security did not exist--if the individual were free to use that 12 percent of his income as he chose--his ability to better his future would be incomparably greater.
Dollars and Crosses
- Jane Orient on Quitting Medicare
- Ayn Rand’s Essay “To Whom It May Concern” Now Online
- Uses and Sources of Gold
- New Book: How to be Profitable and Moral: A Rational Egoist Approach to Business
- Democracy and Self Determination of Peoples: Euphenisms for Mob Rule in the Middle East
- Private Schools for the Poor
- Holleran on Anti-Hero Worship
- Salsman on the Anti-Capitalist Conservatives
- New Website: Checking Premises
- Job Creators: Who Do those Immigrants Think They Are?
