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Time to move beyond "Nothing" on Social Security?

…President Clinton, Senator McCain, and President Bush – did an experiment to see if we could develop a reform plan that we could all support. The Liebman-MacGuineas-Samwick (LMS) plan demonstrates…

Obama and Social Security: why NOT to worry

Parts of the blogosphere are in an uproar over some Q&A the other day that some interpreted as Obama putting Social Security ‘reform’ on the table. Well for reasons outlined…

Down under observations

reforms in the early 1980s and have benefited since. The Washington Consensus, despite being out of fashion these days, is a blueprint that both Australia and New Zealand have followed…

Social Security Actuaries score the Warshawsky Plan

By Bruce Andrew Biggs directs our attention to a new detailed PRA plan by Mark Warshawsky, a member of the Social Security Advisory Board: Notes on SS Reform: Actuaries Score…

Bruno says yes for Illinois

…this is that the political class of IL (both left & right) has banded together to prevent reform, and while we have a compelling non-parti an case for reform, no…

Soc Sec XII: LMS, Solvency and ‘Crisis’

LMS is shorthand for the Liebman-MacGuineas-Samwick Non-Partisan Social Security Reform Plan one of any number of Social Security plans out there but noteable because of its authorship. Maya MacGuineas currently…

Rich Lowry Advises Karl Rove

…the conversation onto this topic (although I don’t think John Snow is in anyway to blame for the administration’s failed PR campaign on this front). Endorse the Ponnuru tax reform

Wonkery

…days of the proposed reform/privatization of Social Security, it seemed a matter not of if, but when and how bad? the would reform be. Similarly, despite its continuing efforts, I…

Bush v. DeLay on IRS Funding

…of the tax code. But DeLay’s efforts may have just been further hampered by revelations of thwarted GOP tax reform musings in a 2002 internal Treasury memo. Ron Suskind, a…