Social Security: The Inherent Contradiction |
Contents
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Social Security and the Economy | 75 |
Social Security and the Individual | 112 |
Social Security and Bankruptcy | 175 |
Social Security and Minorities | 215 |
Social Security and Politics | 251 |
Social Security and Morality | 267 |
The Rationales for Social Security | 279 |
Social Security and Reform | 311 |
Social Security The Ideal System | 351 |
Epilogue | 398 |
The Incidence of the Payroll Tax | 403 |
Tabular Data on Social Security | |
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1979 Annual Report additional Alternative III annuity assets assumptions average beneficiaries benefit obligations benefit payments billion bonds capital investment chapter costs crease decline deficit disability insurance discussed earnings test economic effect elderly employees employment expenditures Federal fertility rate financing future benefits gram higher hospital insurance impact income effect individuals inflation insurance protection Insurance Trust Funds invested system labor supply less Martin Feldstein ment Milton Friedman negative negative income tax OASDI OASI old-age pay-as-you-go basis pay-as-you-go system payroll tax political poor preretirement private alternatives private system problems projections proposal purchase rate of return real rate receive reduced reform replacement ratios result retirement benefits revenues security would pay Social Security Administration social security benefits social security program social security system social security taxes spouse surance survivor's benefits tax increases tax rates taxable payroll taxpayers term life insurance tion trust fund welfare elements
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Page 18 - Next winter we may well undertake the great task of furthering the security of the citizen and his family through social insurance.. . . Hence I am looking for a sound means which I can recommend to provide at once security against several of the great disturbing factors in life—especially those which relate to unemployment and old age. 1
Page 18 - 1934 message to Congress: Among our objectives I place the security of the men, women and children of the nation first. This security for the individual and for the family, concerns itself primarily with three factors. People want decent homes to live in, they want to locate them where they can engage in productive work, and they want some
Page 23 - should be observed in legislation on this subject. In the first place, the system adopted, except for the money necessary to initiate it, should be self-sustaining in the sense that funds for the payment of insurance benefits should not come from the proceeds of general taxation.