Evan Soltas wrote a column about Social Security in Bloomberg. I responded to that column with a blog post, and explained where I thought he went wrong. Now he is out with a blog post responding to me. In my argument, I basically pan the notion that retirement savings really do anything meaningful. You see,… Continue reading Soltas and squirrels
Category: Entitlements
Response to Evan Soltas on generational transfers
Evan Soltas has a post out today about generational warfare, in which he effectively advocates cutting Social Security benefits. Him and I had a little back-and-forth about this article before it came out, and he told me to blog my response to make it clearer. So here goes. In his argument, Soltas groups Medicare and… Continue reading Response to Evan Soltas on generational transfers
How to means-test Social Security
I do not think we should make any modifications to Social Security benefits. Closing the small Social Security deficit would be trivially easy with tweaks on the revenue side, and there is just no reason not to do that. However, if we are actually going to make cuts to the program, why don’t we do… Continue reading How to means-test Social Security
Nicholas Kristof is an irresponsible moron
I had the extreme displeasure of reading Kristof’s long Sunday piece on out-of-control rural Kentuckian welfare cheats. According to some random person Kristof met in Kentucky, a bunch of people there try to make their kids really stupid and illiterate so that they can claim them as disabled and collect mountains of government cash. And… Continue reading Nicholas Kristof is an irresponsible moron
Closing the Social Security shortfall is easy, give it a try
I wrote earlier about the myth of Social Security insolvency back when scaremongering about Social Security was in the news. These days, it looks like Medicare is the new punching bag. It is hard to tell if the right-wing gave up on the Social Security stuff because of how ridiculous it was, or if they… Continue reading Closing the Social Security shortfall is easy, give it a try