Tag: fixing Social Security
This proposal would undermine support for the program and delay a real solution. My clever friend, and occasional co-author, Andrew Biggs is up to mischief again. He and his lawyer co-author Kristin Shapiro argue that we don’t really need to worry about exhausting the Social Security trust fund because the worst effects could be prevented…
I would argue for moderation. I usually have a strong opinion on issues in my sphere, but have been going back and forth about one component likely to be in any package to fix Social Security – namely, increasing the taxable wage base. Some increase in the wage base is almost inevitable because growing wag…
