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If you’re like most Americans, Social Security is a key part of your retirement plans — around 96% of the workforce is currently covered by some sort of Social Security plan. But the current economic downturn has many people seeing an increasingly uncertain (if not downright bleak) future for their Social Security benefits.
This article describes how the Social Security benefit process works and explains how your Social Security benefits might be impacted by funding shortages.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Milton Friedman
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Term limits increase the power of unelected professional staff.
The real conflict in political theory … is not between individualism and community. It’s between voluntary association and coerced association.
David Boaz Continue reading ‘The Ruling Class and America’s New Mandarins’ »
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