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● A Balanced-Budget Amendment to the Constitution, with appropriate exceptions for times of war and recession.
● A line-item veto, to give the President a fighting chance to eliminate pork and earmarks.
● A limitation on federal spending, to 20% of GDP.-
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Most of the millionaires in the U.S. are small business owners, and their wealth is tied up in their businesses. They drive used, American-made sedans; they live in modest homes in middle-class neighborhoods. Most of them are first-generation wealthy; they did not inherit their wealth, but earned it the hard way, through adding value in a business, or by saving diligently. Source: "The Millionaire Next Door", by Thomas Stanley and William Danko.Have Your Say!
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Social Security Archive
The True Cost
By James Schaefer.
There is an enormous cost to taxpayers -- and to the American economy, and to government -- by having the Social Security system structured and administered the way it currently is.
Holding the Social Security Trust Fund in safe but low-yield U.S. Treasuries -- "backed by the full faith...
Read More So. There Really Was Enough Money After All . . .
By James Schaefer.
The existence of the Alternate Plan, which substitutes for Social Security in three Texas counties, is proof that Social Security has collected sufficient FICA revenue over the decades to keep the system solvent (Perry Is Right; There Is a Texas Model for Fixing Social Security, Wall Street Journal, September...
Read More Notes from the old New Deal
by Michael Smith.
I ran across some historical tidbits about Social Security on the Internet. The first person to receive benefits was Ernest Ackerman, who collected 17 cents in January 1937. Mister, we could use a man like Ernest Ackerman again…and again…and again. He might lead the way to solvency.
As it...
Read More Friedman follow-up
by Michael Smith.
Tom Friedman’s column from last week ruffled some feathers, evidently. Paul Krugman has come out to denounce warnings about Greece’s debt as fodder for “people who opposed health care reform and are itching for an excuse to dismantle Social Security.”
I’m sure Friedman will be happy to learn that...
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