You can easily skip the first part of Hill’s epic; it covers ground we know only too well on how people have been acting more like Grasshoppers than Ants in regards to their retirement plans (and the economic beatings many have received due to Government shennigans). But Mr. Hill’s solutions is to, literally, double-down The gritty reality that the Obama administration and House Republicans must face is that the vast
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December 28, 2012
The Atlantic’s Steven Hill: Time to make Big Government your only retirement option [Darleen Click]
February 19, 2012
LATimes columnist sees problems with Social Security “tax cut” … [Darleen Click]
… but still gets it wrong But the worst aspect of the payroll tax holiday is that it erodes Social Security’s standing as a unique government program with its own revenue stream, a tax dedicated to its upkeep alone. Melding its own revenue with that of the federal government at large chips away at its standing, facilitating no one’s goals except those who want to see the edifice pulled down.