Tag: OECD

They may explain part of the problem in France, but the really interesting fact is the low U.S. burden. I was trying to figure out what made French workers put on their yellow vests. The action-forcing event appears to have been a proposed hike in gasoline and diesel taxes. Are the French overburdened with taxes? …

OECD confirms U.S. Social Security benefits low and validates methodology of U.S. Social Security Actuaries. Two recent developments that I have found both annoying and dangerous are the deletion of replacement rate information from the annual Social Security Trustees Report and the coordinated campaign in the press arguing that the elderly have plenty of money…