Charles P. Blahous

Reforming Social Security (eBook, PDF)

For Ourselves and Our Posterity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Blahous contends that Social Security is ill-equipped to withstand the effects of an aging population and will impose excessive tax burdens upon future Americans unless its course is changed. Far from a doomsday tract, however, the book provides instances of proposals that would satisfactorily avert this course, if only the political will is mustered to implement them. Blahous argues for the program developed by the National Commission on Retirement Policy, but also offers positive descriptions of plausible alternatives as well as unsparing criticism of those who would cook the books in defense of either current law or high-cost alternatives. Reforming Social Security is sure to disturb ideologues from all parts of the political spectrum, because of its frank willingness to expose the costs of different approaches as well as the self-interest so often pursued by interest groups, political actors, and Social Security experts. An important analysis for the general public as well as policy makers and others concerned with social security issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313000348
• Artikelnr.: 37811392

Autorenporträt

CHARLES P. BLAHOUS III is currently Executive Director for the Alliance for Worker Retirement Security in Washington, D.C./e He served from 1996-2000 as Policy Director for the office of Senator Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), where he was responsible for managing the senator's major legislative policy initiatives, including pension reform, Social Security reform, Medicare choice, and budget reform.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Alan Simpson The View from the Future Challenges to the Culture
of Entitlement The Political Inheritance of Social Security The
Kerrey-Danforth Commission Social Security: Its Purposes, and How It Works
The Trustees' Reports and What They Say: Beyond Actuarial Solvency
Dissecting the Trustees' Assumptions A Cottage Industry of Demagogues Into
the Lion's Den with the AARP The Congressional Debate Evolves: 1994-1997 A
Divided Advisory Council Unites Behind Advance Funding Where Will Future
Benefits Come From? A Sound and Fair System To Fund or Not to Fund?
Personal Accounts or Government Investment The Top Ten Tricks in the Social
Security Debate Tackling the Policy Challenges of Personal Accounts Putting
It All Together: How a Reformed System Can Work Reaching Agreement with the
NCRP Slings and Arrows 1998-1999: The President's Years of Discussion--Then
More Discussion Congress Reacts to the President's Proposals The Last, Best
Hopes: The Senate Bipartisan Plan and other Efforts Where We Are and
Whither We Are Tending Selected Bibliography Index