List/Grid Tag Archives: Social Security
Annual social security and medicare trust fund report
Today, the Board of Trustees for the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds issued their annual report. You can find a summary of the report by clicking here. Bottom line,…
Nothing to see here… Social Security “Trust Fund” takes $1 trillion hit in just one year
We keep quietly kicking the can down the road. The Congressional Budget Office released new projections concerning Social Security funding late last week.
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It is unclear tonight whether the defunding of Social Security and Medicare will continue for another two months or another year or, not at all. Congress, at least those not…
Republicans are finally “catching on”
In other last minute negotiations, it appears that the one year, temporary payroll tax cut will become a bit more permanent, at least for another year. This time, however, the…
The Senate’s Social Security/Medicare “bait and switch”
This week, the Senate will take up a bill concerning extending the reduction in the amount of taxes Americans pay to fund Social Security and Medicare. The bill contemplates extension of the…
This could have been your Social Security
While politicians argue about what, if anything to do with Social Security, maybe we should look at life without Social Security.
Saving Social Security with personal retirement accounts
Our featured video for the next day or so. Courtesy Dan Mitchell from the Cato Institute.
More good news from Washington
We learned in May that the Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds reported that the Social Security Disability Fund is expected to go broke in 2018. Of…
No excuse for Obama’s statement about Social Security checks
The man is a liar, and although I have great respect for the office and have in the past exclusively “attacked” his policies, I have to wonder if the man…
Cong. Bacerra uses his wallet to explain why Social Security isn’t a problem
I think the analogy would’ve been much more appropriate had Congressman Xavier Becerra pulled out one of his credit cards instead of his daughters US savings bond, but that’s just…
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