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Congressman Mike Pence (R-IN) has a very good piece in the Opinion Journal about how a solvency-focused approach to Social Security puts us on a path toward higher taxes and more long-term problems. No New Taxes Bush is still getting Social Security… more »

There are rumors swirling that President Bush is willing to talk about ways to "fix" Social Security with "no preconditions". I am truly frightened (as much as one can be about an economic policy) that Bush will prove to those few remaining blind GOP… more »

PUBLISHED in the Rocky Mountain News, 10/5/06 http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/letters/article/0,2777,DRMN_23966_5042777,00.html see "Dems: GOP again targets Social Security" (AP via Rocky Mountain News, 9/23/06) http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/st… more »

Here's an excellent article in USA today describing how an internal audited government report which includes budgetary effects of entitlement liabilities shows a far worse picture of deficits and the government's financial health. It should be require… more »

A reader of this blog, Roy Dent, has written a book called "FOOL'S GOLD, Social Security/Medicare Trust Funds: How Politicians Have Deceived America." For those of you who are interested in learning more about the book or buying it, please visit: http… more »

see "Social Security battle reignites" (Washington Times, 7/9/06) http://washingtontimes.com/national/20060709-122650-3901r.htm President Bush seems to be trying to restart the debate on Social Security and Medicare reform. It's a courageous and dang… more »

In my June 26th article about the Supreme Court's decision overturning Vermont's campaign finance laws, I made a fairly big error in my initial reading of Justice Stevens's opinion in the case. He wrote that he had reconsidered part of the Buckley dec… more »

In the first hour after Miers' withdrawal has become public, the political dance has begun. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Harry Reid (D-NV) are claiming that Bush is taking orders from James Dobson and the christian right (somewhat true) and that th… more »

Thanks to KipEsquire for leading me to the following article: PGL at the Angry Bear has written a fairly non-sensical piece about the economics of Social Security which represents about the best the left has to offer. You can take a look at it here,… more »

This is an excellent (although rather technical) article by Jagadeesh Gokhale, a Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute, explaining why personal accounts do at least partly address the solvency issue. Read the article at: http://www.cato.org/pub_display… more »