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SOCIAL SECURITY: IT’S JUST MATH

Social Security plus Medicare, of $ 2737 Billion. Close enough, if you don’t mind rounding up by 10%. It is not honest to start out by talking about Social Security,…

Boskin on Social Security: Abuse of Utility Theory

…G relative to the marginal utility of P. Michael also argued: As for younger workers, they consistently state when surveyed that they do not expect to receive any Social Security

The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead

…health plan, make public universities free, expand Social Security, spend big on infrastructure, create universal child-care and pre-K programs, provide federal jobs for young people and bail out struggling pension…

The hypocrisy of most deficit discussions

…stay away from their Medicare and Social Security? How about Center for Disease Control–would anyone want there to be no federal vaccine programs for highly contagious diseases? How about National…