ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Introductions and FAQs > Social Security
- Social Security reform FAQ
Source: Choose Your Future
Country: United States
- A handy Q&A that answers questions such as: What is the Social Security Trust Fund? What does the term "lock box" mean? What is an "add-on account"? Under the current Social Security system, what happens if I die before I reach retirement? If we had private accounts, what would happen to my money if I died before retirement? (9/00)
- Should Your State Opt Out of Social Security?
Source: International Center for Pension Reform
Author: Paul R. Farago
Country: United States
- This is a transcript of a talk in which Farago presents another option for changing America's federal-level pension system: opting out state-by-state. (6/97)
- Social Security chimeras
Source: iOptOut of Social Security
Author: Milton Friedman
Country: United States
- Milton Friedman looks at the Social Security fraud and examines the private investment solution. (1/99)
- It's Time To End Social Security
Source: International Society for Individual Liberty
Author: George L. O'Brien
Country: United States
E-mail: isil@isil.org
- Why Social Security doesn't work, why it can't work, and what would work instead. ISIL pamphlet.
- George Bush's reform proposal for Social Security
Source: GeorgeWBush.com
Country: United States
- Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush's proposal for reforming the tottering Social Security program. (2000)
- Al Gore's reform proposal for Social Security
Source: AlGore2000.com
Country: United States
- Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore's proposal for reforming the tottering Social Security program. (2000)
- A College Fund on the Social Security Model
Source: Cascade Policy Institute
Author: William B Conerly
Country: United States
- A satirical look at how using the the Social Security fund model would affect your family if you adopted it when saving for your children's education. (8/12/99)
- Social Security: A Ticking Time Bomb
Source: International Center for Pension Reform
Author: Stephen Moore
Country: United States
- Online text of a Human Events article that calls for Americans, especially young people, to become educated about Social Security's problems and market-based alternatives.
- Labor's misguided objections to Social Security privatization
Source: International Center for Pension Reform
Author: Gary Dempsey
Country: United States
- Online text of a Journal of Commerce article that addresses organized labor's objections to private pension systems.
- Social Security: Ready to Retire?
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Daniel J Mitchell
Country: United States
- Is Social Security in need of serious reform even in light of the good it has done? (8/12/99)
- Social Security number chronology
Source: Social Security Administration
Country: United States
- Starting from the Social Security Act's enactment in 1935, this timeline shows the history of Social Security numbers and their use.
- Questions and answers about personal Social Security retirement accounts
Source: NCPA
Author: Matt Moore
Country: United States
- "The debate over Social Security reform has coalesced around the idea of personal retirement accounts. PRAs are not risky and they will require no previous investment experience." (05/18/01)
- Retire Social Security
Source: Donald Hennig's Home Page/U.S. Libertarian Party
Country: United States
E-mail: DonHCVT@aol.com
- A concise appraisal of the problems with Social Security, and a simple plan for dealing with them.
- Facts about Social Security
Source: NCPA
Country: United States
- The NCPA lays out some of the facts about the faltering Social Security system that need to be addressed by legislators. (01/02/01)
- Facts about Social Security
Source: National Center for Policy Analysis
Author: Matt Moore
Country: United States
E-mail: ncpa@public-policy.org
- Proposals to "save" Social Security have fueled an onslaught of criticism and praise of the current system -- some accurate, some in the neighborhood and some not even close. This intro details five facts among the number of myths and half-truths which have clouded the dialogue. (9/26/00)
- Benefits of personal retirement accounts for women
Source: NCPA
Country: United States
- Women, in particular, are likely to benefit more from personal retirement accounts than from the existing Social Security system. (08/15/01)
- Libertarian solutions: Social Security is going broke: can a privatized system work?
Source: LP News
Author: Jonathan Trager
Country: United States
E-mail: George.Getz@hq.lp.org
- If Americans choose the libertarian solution, writes Trager, "When future workers ask themselves who is going to take care of them when they're old, they won't answer: 'The government.' They'll be able to answer: 'I will.'" (06/01)
- Progressive personal investment accounts
Source: NCPA
Country: United States
- Transition to Private Retirement Accounts could be speeded by allowing low-wage workers to invest more payroll taxes. (08/27/01)
- Social Security reforms offer possibilities, problems
Source: NCPA
Country: United States
- Social Security is expected to start paying out more in benefits than it takes in from payroll taxes by 2016 -- although it could happen as early as 2011. Three possible approaches to preparing for an aging population have generated considerable public attention, but may not be enough. (12/11/01)
- Social Security reform and personal retirement accounts
Source: CSE
Author: Chuck McGee
Country: United States
- Questions and answers on private retirement accounts as part of Social Security reform. (6/16/03)
- Social Security: myths vs. realities
Source: FoG
Country: United States
- Popular questions regarding Social Security and Social Security reform and short, myth-busting answers.
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