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The Debate, Mostly Misguided, About Social Security's Financial Status
The Washington Post; subscription may be required [Opinion] Mar. 18, 2008
Excerpt: I'll spare you the history lesson about why no one worried much about how to invest the huge -- albeit temporary -- surpluses that Social Security began to rack up in the 1980s, when Social Security taxes were raised and future benefits trimmed as a result of the famous Greenspan Commission report. It would be nice to have $2.3 trillion in useful assets in an equivalent of a sovereign wealth fund, but we can't turn back time.
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