A Real Fix for Social Security Requires An Increase in National Saving

As the population ages in the coming decades, growing expenditures for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other public ...

Social Security's Financial Problems: How Should We View Them?

One of the most confusing things about the current Social Security debate is the many and sometimes divergent ...

A "One Percent" Tax Increase Will Not Fix Social Security's Problems

   The Social Security payroll tax, better known to workers as FICA (or SECA for the self employed), is ...

Social Security's Trust Funds Mask the Problem

Some commentators have suggested that the financial problems confronting Social Security are overblown because the large balance building ...

Reform Should Not Wait For a Crisis

It is often said that our political system only responds to a crisis.  If that is true, we ...

The Presidents FY 2006 Budget: As significant for what it omits as for what it includes

New CBO Report Shows the Aging of the Budget

Fiscal Policy in Campaign 2004

I. Introduction I. Introduction Four years ago the budget was on its way to a $236 billion surplus and the ...