Showing posts with label Social Security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Security. Show all posts
Thursday, July 16, 2026

Why Eliminating the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap Is Not an Easy Fix

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Every few years, politicians think they have found the silver bullet for solving Social Security's financial woes. This time, it is Sena...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Social Security’s 2032 Cliff: The Countdown That Congress Would Prefer to Ignore

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Social Security is an insolvent and unsustainable retirement program. That much I wrote about last year during Social Security's 90th a...
Thursday, March 26, 2026

Means-Testing Social Security Is a Better Band-Aid, But Still Not a Cure

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Social Security was born out of crisis. In the depths of the Great Depression, about half of the elderly in America lacked sufficient incom...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Social Security at 90: An Outdated, Broken System Failing Retirees and Betraying Future Generations

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On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. With the stroke of his pen, FDR established the Soci...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Raising the Retirement Age Can Help Social Security, But It Is Not Enough to Save It

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As we come to the climax of this presidential election, I think about Social Security and how neither presidential candidate intends to cut ...
Monday, August 5, 2024

Trump's Idea to End Taxation of Social Security Benefits Would Be a Budgetary Blunder

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As we get closer to the elections in November, we will see more pandering from both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in the hopes of winning t...
Monday, May 1, 2023

Protests in Paris About Raising Retirement Age Beg Questions About Social Security Solvency in France and the United States

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It might have faded from the U.S. media's attention, but France has continued the protests that started on January 19, 2023. I know that...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Social Security Is Not Sustainable: Is It Time to Get Rid of Social Security?

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Social Security was created in 1935 by the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration with the goal of making sure that the elderly did not drop d...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

CBO Report Shows Government Spending Is Creating a Fiscal Crisis

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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which is the agency responsible for federal budgetary and legislative analysis, released its annual B...
Thursday, January 7, 2021

12 Reasons Why Franklin D. Roosevelt Was One of the Worst Presidents in U.S. History

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As Donald Trump wraps up his presidential term, it is hard for us to not reflect on the impact Trump has had on the United States, for bette...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Why Cory Booker's Affordable Housing Plan Is Mostly Deficient, But Has Some Good in It

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In recent months, I have noticed that various Democratic figures are shifting the Democratic Party to the Left. The Green New Deal , introdu...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

12-13-2018 Policy Digest: Gender Wage Gap, Social Security Privatization, Occupational Licensing

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There is quite a bit of policy research that has come across my attention in the past few days. The bad news is that I cannot cover it all i...