Tag: "entitlement reform"

Are Millennials Ready for Social Security Reform?

Government is very good at crowding out private sector activities.  When government borrows, it can cause interest rates to rise and crowd out more productive private sector borrowing.  When government expands welfare programs to help the hungry and homeless, the effect is the crowding out of individual giving to more efficient private-sector programs.  And decades [...]

The United States of Cyprus: Will American Retirement Accounts be Raided?

As I skimmed through a copy of the president’s 2014 budget, which by the way, is chock full of fluffy spending at the expense of the taxpayer, I caught site of an interesting proposal regarding retirement accounts.   Let me back up a bit and rephrase myself — I caught sight of a “hair-brained scheme” that [...]

Reforming Social Security: The Case for Progressive Price Indexing

In light of all of the worrying about sequestration, entitlement reform – of course – goes undiscussed.  While trimming around the edges of discretionary spending has sent people into a panic, the $100 billion in cuts are a drop in the bucket compared to the growing expenditures of the mandatory spending programs Social Security and Medicare. [...]

Worse Than I Imagined (Part I)

Social Security and Medicare are grand Ponzi schemes that make Bernie Madoff’s operations look like petty theft. They discriminate against black males especially because they pay into the system on every job they have, but many die of health problems and violence long before they collect a dime in benefits. Middle and higher income Americans [...]

How Do We Really Feel About Taxing the Rich?

Last month the National Bureau of Economic Research released a working paper that explored some of the more puzzling disconnects between the harsh realities of U.S. tax progressivity and how the public views fair taxation. Matthew Weinzierl of the Harvard Business School argues that modern tax research is the result of utilitarian assumptions.  This means [...]

Measuring Poverty

Special blog post by Lewis Warne, an NCPA research associate. In 2011 Congress online canadian pharmacy no prescription defunded the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM, an). The SPM is an alternative to the Official Poverty Measure (OPM) that has been used since the 1960s.  The goal of the SPM is to provide a more comprehensive picture of poverty [...]

Climbing the Fiscal Mountain

Note: Guest blogger Lewis Warne, an NCPA research associate, gives his thoughts on the fiscal cliff…or is it a mountain? The fiscal cliff looms ahead, but the fall is so far only because we blindly walked up a mountain of spending. viagra prices Over the past 30 years there has been a severe lack of [...]

Unemployment is Holding, but Disability is Climbing…

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The Fiscal Cliff? Whatever…

It’s less than four days away from the fiscal cliff.  But unlike the recent Mayan prophecy, the cliff will really happen.  Tax cuts will expire and discretionary spending will be cut automatically.   And of course, we will reach the debt c cheap generic priligy eiling sooner rather than later.   There are many obvious things wrong [...]

Scaring Seniors, Revisited

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) released his proposed 2013 budget yesterday and before the ink was dry, the left was attacking buy viagra online it like vultures on a carcass. Ryan was being portrayed as the bogeyman of seniors’ concerns about Medicare. As part of his effort to control an out-of-control bureaucracy, his plan includes: Increasing [...]