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- From: timlee@public.btr.com
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Social Security, Pension plans, and Ending the national debt
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- Date: 21 Jul 92 06:22:55 GMT
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- Reply-To: timlee@btr.com (Timothy J. Lee)
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- DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- |And if you would read all my posts, you would quite clearly see that I readily
- |admit that Social Security is not even close to perfect. It is, however,
- |the most effective anti-poverty program in American public policy. The
- |difference in benefits between the largest and smallest is miniscule,
- |especially compared to other income sources.
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- But why should there be any difference at all? It's not miniscule;
- sample figures in an almanac indicate the rich get 1.7 times someone
- who made $15000 a year before retiring. An anti-poverty program
- that gives more to people who don't need it than it does to those
- who do is, by definition, wasting money.
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- Suppose you could redesign Social Security, other welfare programs,
- and the tax system from the clean sheet. What would you do?
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