Social Security

• Sen. Alan Simpson Kindly Provides Example of Those Thank You Letters He Went on About, Scott Shackford, May 23, 2012
• Peter Orszag's Secret Service Recovery Plan: "Stimulate Now," Pay Later, Nick Gillespie, May 23, 2012
• FDR Would Have Opposed Today's Social Security, Matt Welch, April 9, 2012
• Why Geezers Are the True Enemy of the Occupy Movement, Nick Gillespie & Joshua Swain, January 30, 2012
• Why Not Abolish Payroll Taxes Altogether Instead of Screwing Around With a Short-Term, Low-Percentage Cut?, Nick Gillespie, December 21, 2011
• Occupy AARP! or, Our Mothers and Fathers Are Beyond Our Command!, Nick Gillespie, December 20, 2011
• Biggest Handouts to 1 Percent Are Social Security and Medicare, Nick Gillespie, December 12, 2011
• Veronique de Rugy: One Good Reason to Extend the Payroll Tax Cut..., Nick Gillespie, December 2, 2011
• Gingrich's 'Right-Wing Social Engineering', Jacob Sullum, November 21, 2011
• Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on Old People Displacing Poor People at the Federal Trough, November 3, 2011
• Big Government, Meet Big Baby, Seth McKelvey, October 20, 2011
• Social Security COLA Increase vs. Wage Decline or, No Wonder Kids Hate Their Grandparents, Nick Gillespie, October 20, 2011
• Ron Paul Set to Unveil a $1 Trillion Budget Cut, Matt Welch, October 17, 2011
• Reason Writers Around Town - The Key to Entitlement Reform, October 11, 2011
• Social Security and the Constitution, Damon W. Root, September 22, 2011
• Nice Try Libs, But Social Security is no 401-k, Shikha Dalmia, September 17, 2011
• The Truth and Lies About Social Security, Shikha Dalmia, September 12, 2011
• The New York Times Corrects Rick Perry's Misconceptions About the Social Security Trust Fund, Jacob Sullum, September 8, 2011
• Social Security is Not a Ponzi Scheme, Mr. Perry, Shikha Dalmia, September 7, 2011
• Exploring Real Attitudes Toward Entitlement Reform, Emily Ekins, August 31, 2011
• Americans Are Open to Reforming Social Security and Medicare, Emily Ekins, August 31, 2011
• Americans Are Open to Reforming Social Security and Medicare, Emily Ekins, August 31, 2011
• The Public Is Conflicted Over Where to Place Responsibility for Retirement Savings, Emily Ekins, August 30, 2011
• The Public Is Conflicted Over Where to Place Responsibility for Retirement Savings, August 30, 2011
• Reason-Rupe Poll: 57 Percent of Americans Say Spending Cuts Will Help the Economy, Emily Ekins, August 30, 2011
• Rick Perry's Underwhelming Radicalism, Peter Suderman, August 15, 2011
• Reason Writers Around Town: Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch in the Washington Examiner on Three Government Policies Right for Reform, July 28, 2011
• Dammit, Jim, I'm An Actor, Not An Advocate for Federal Entitlement Programs!, Peter Suderman, July 6, 2011
• People Under 55 Favor Individual Retirement Accounts, Lower Social Security Taxes, June 8, 2011
• Who's Smarter When it Comes to Social Security Reform? College Grads or Holders of Grad Degrees?, Nick Gillespie, June 1, 2011
• Oh My!, Jacob Sullum, April 13, 2011
• Stink Bugs on the Rise; Can We Blame Bush?, Nick Gillespie, March 25, 2011
• Harry Reid: “Leave Social Security alone.”, Peter Suderman, March 17, 2011
• Social Security, Snoopy Snoopy Poop Dog, & Alan Simpson: Ultimate Enema Man Remix, Nick Gillespie & Austin Bragg, March 10, 2011
• Don't Trust Anybody Under 65, Tim Cavanaugh, March 7, 2011
• Sen. Claire McCaskill: Against Social Security Cuts. For a Big Tax Increase?, Peter Suderman, March 4, 2011
• Government’s Broken Promises, Peter Suderman, February 23, 2011
• Rand On the Dole, Tim Cavanaugh, January 30, 2011
• It's Still Not Time for Potential Solutions (or Honesty), Jacob Sullum, January 26, 2011
• Reason Writers on the Tube: Katherine Mangu-Ward Goes to Wal-Mart with Michelle Obama on Freedom Watch, January 21, 2011
• You Know What America Really Needs Right Now? A Better State of the Union Address, Matt Welch, December 17, 2010
• When NPR Recognizes That Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme, Ronald Bailey, November 22, 2010
• It Depends On What the Meaning of “Cut” Is, Peter Suderman, November 11, 2010
• Reason TV: Post-election press conference with Jim Mora, head coach of the Democrats, November 3, 2010
• Get Off That Lifeguard Tower, Grandma!, Jacob Sullum, October 27, 2010
• The Social Security Choice, Peter Suderman, October 21, 2010
• Democrats to Seniors: We Would Like to Give You Some Free Money. Hint, Hint., Peter Suderman, October 18, 2010
• Bernanke: "our public finances are...on an unsustainable path"; "failing to respond to them would endanger our economic future", Matt Welch, October 5, 2010
• John Boehner Would Like to Have an “Adult Conversation” With America About Entitlements Just So Long As That Conversation Contains No Solutions, Peter Suderman, September 27, 2010
• Let’s Cut Spending! (Just Not Any of the Spending That Benefits Me.), Peter Suderman, September 15, 2010
• Oh, For a Life of Government-Subsidized Leisure, Peter Suderman, September 8, 2010
• Anyone Who Wants to Cut Entitlements Clearly Has No Place on a Commission Devoted to Fiscal Responsibility, Jacob Sullum, August 26, 2010
• Simpson's Sin: Tit for Teat, Jacob Sullum, August 26, 2010
• All This Talk About Deficits Is Getting In the Way Of Preserving and Expanding Our Entitlement Spending, Peter Suderman, August 25, 2010
• Is the AARP Willing to Bargain on Social Security?, Peter Suderman, August 20, 2010
• Reason Morning Links: From Yemen to YouTube, Jesse Walker, August 16, 2010
• Don't Trust the Social Security Trust Fund, Peter Suderman, August 5, 2010
• Reason.tv: Former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker on The Federal Fiscal Crisis, June 24, 2010
• Yet Still Even More on The Coming War Between Public and Private Sector Workers...Chap MCMXIII, Nick Gillespie, June 3, 2010
• How High Can/Should/Will Retirement Age[*] Go?, Nick Gillespie, June 1, 2010
• How Can You Tell When an Imaginary Trust Fund Disappears?, Jacob Sullum, March 25, 2010
• We're So Screwed, Matt Welch, March 3, 2010
• Which First-Time SOTUer Said it, Part II?, Matt Welch, January 27, 2010
• News Flash: Entitlement Spending Grows Like Giant Cancer on U.S. Economy, Nick Gillespie, January 25, 2010
• Social Security Chief Says Insolvency Not So Bad, Brian Doherty, October 15, 2009
• Fogies Are Working for the Weekend, Not Retirement, Katherine Mangu-Ward, August 17, 2009
• Bailout for Union Pensions?, Matt Welch, June 18, 2009
• The $499,000 Pension and Other Tales of California Governance, Matt Welch, June 1, 2009
• How Could the Country's Richest State* Have One of the Most Insolvent Public Pension Systems?, Matt Welch, May 27, 2009
• Retiring Public-Sector Retirement Plans, Nick Gillespie, April 6, 2009