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- From: jackson@kaos.stsci.edu (Bob Jackson)
- Subject: Re: Social Security, Pension plans, and Ending the national debt
- In-Reply-To: 's message of Wed, 22 Jul 1992 08: 11:35 EDT
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:40:08 GMT
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- Social Security has the basic problem of trying to be both
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- Insurance
- and
- Welfare
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- Those are mutually incompatible goals.
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- If one is entitled to benefits because one 'paid' into it,
- then the welfare aspect is suspect.
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- If one is entitled to benefits because you are poor, then
- the benefits being related to contributions is suspect.
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- Kind of like a fried snowball - Internally Contradictory
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