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“Death and the Penguin”

…was wrong with this life, he thought, walking with downcast eyes. Or life itself had changed, and was as it used to be – simple, comprehensible – only on the…

AARP vs. Social Security?

lifetime real working wages) … over a longer life expectancy in retirement… they can raise their own payroll tax one half of one tenth of one percent per year… or…

…each month for their own retirement. This means raising the payroll tax from 6% to about 8%. And since the change in life expectancy is not going to happen all…