Obama's caving on chained CPI and allowing reductions to Medicare so he can achieve his long-desired grand bargain is a terrible idea, not only on the merits but on the politics. It isn't going to convince Republican fireeaters to bargain in good faith because their...
Social Security
Republican extremism and a complete unwillingness to deal with the Kenyan usurper is the one thing keeping us from cuts to Social Security: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s proposed.
Yglesias is dead on that the best way for people to "invest" in their retirement is a functioning social security system. The average person probably doesn't have the time, skills,.
When both Rick Perry and Glenn Reynolds embrace an argument you know it's going to be uniquely stupid: RICK PERRY CALLS SOCIAL SECURITY A PONZI SCHEME. Well, I have heard Yale Law Professor John Langbein say that if a private entity did what Social Security...
Over at the United Steelworkers blog, Dean Baker unloads on Alan Simpson and the idea that Simpson knows anything useful about Social Security: Former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson has been.