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