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Obama Wants Social Security to Be a Welfare Plan
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| By Andrew G. Biggs |
| Posted: Friday, October 24, 2008 |
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Barack Obama's tax credit amounts to a radical change in the system.
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America Has a Highly Progressive Tax System
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| By Duncan Currie |
| Posted: Friday, October 24, 2008 |
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The top income earners now shoulder far more of the federal tax burden than they did in the early 1980s.
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Argentina Attempts to Nationalize Personal Accounts System; Workers Object
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| By Andrew G. Biggs |
| Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2008 |
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There are some interesting pension developments in Argentina that shed some light on Social Security policy in the United States.
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Alternate Measures of Replacement Rates for Social Security Benefits and Retirement Income
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| By Andrew G. Biggs, Glenn R. Springstead |
| Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2008 |
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This article illustrates replacement rates using four measures of preretirement earnings.
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A Politically Courageous Idea
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| By David Frum |
| Posted: Monday, October 20, 2008 |
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If any of the candidates were serious about energy independence, they would seize this moment of declining oil prices to announce a standby tax on oil.
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Dollars and Sense
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| By Duncan Currie |
| Posted: Friday, October 17, 2008 |
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What would the McCain and Obama tax plans mean for the capital stock, economic growth, and effective marginal rates?
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The Optimal Design of Social Security Benefits
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| By Kent Smetters, Shinichi Nishiyama |
| Posted: Friday, October 17, 2008 |
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The ex-ante best U.S. Social Security replacement rate structure is fairly "flat."
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Taxing Times
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| By Karlyn Bowman |
| Posted: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
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As a stand-alone issue nationally, taxes have not been a priority for at least a quarter century.
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Yes, It's a Wreck, but We Can Fix It
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| By Desmond Lachman, Allan H. Meltzer |
| Posted: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 |
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Why have the government's efforts to right the economy not yet succeeded?
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How Would Obama Change Effective Payroll Tax Rates and Social Security Progressivity?
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| By Andrew G. Biggs |
| Posted: Thursday, October 9, 2008 |
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Senator Obama has a component of his tax plan that would introduce significant progressivity into the tax side of Social Security.
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