Don’t Privatize Social Security

by Ari Armstrong | 9:45 am, August 23, 2011 | Comments Off

Recently I delivered a short talk, "Don't Privatize Social Security!" The point is that the scheme to allegedly "privatize" it would do nothing of the sort; it would instead create investment accounts mandated and managed by federal politicians and bureaucrats. The real free-market solution is to slowly phase out the program entirely.



The information about Ida May Fuller comes from the Social Security Administration.

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