Social Security Calculators and (Mis)Calculators

The Democrats posted a couple of calculators trying to debunk President Bush's proposals: Harry Reid and Charles Schumer

For an analysis of the Democratic Calculators see:

• Democratic Calculators: Abacus in an Earthquake
  
• The Democrats' Social Security (Mis)Calculator
  
• More on the (Mis)Calculator
  
• RNC
  
• Heritage Foundation
  
• CATO Institute Daily Debunker, February 18, 2005
  

For real calculators see:

• Heritage
  
• CATO
  

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Generic Confusion: Questions for conservatives on Social Security

Generic Confusion: Questions for conservatives on Social Security has a very good analysis of the Social Security topic, providing answers to three questions Stephen Bainbridge raised.

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BatesLine: Bobby Lorton speaks

BatesLine: Bobby Lorton speaks

Funny: He doesn't want me to quote the paper out of context, but he doesn't want me to link to the whole story so people can read it in context.

Could it be that he just does not want to be critizied?

For details on this see http://tcs.org/ioport/mar05/blogger.htm

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