Glen Tenney's Online Resources
Topic: Social Security 

 

   

Old-age SecurityWithout the State

By Oskari Juurikkala

4 pages, 2007

Making Kids Worthless: Social Security’s Contribution to the Fertility Crisis

By Oskari Juurikkala

Juurikkala discusses how Social Security systems have undermined extended family ties, decreased fertility rates, and discouraged work and savings. (4 pages, 2007)

Bush Style Privatization: More and More Problems

By Robert Murphy

Murphy suggests that Bush’s “privatization” plan for Social Security is a shell game in which no increase in net investment results. (3 pages, 2005)

Social Security and the Destruction of Capital

By Antony Mueller

(4 pages, 2005)

The Fiction of Social Security Bonds

By Charles Rounds

This article focuses on the sophistry involved in thinking of the Social Security bonds as assets.  (2 pages, 2005)

Bush’s Impossible Social Security Plan

By Robert Murphy

Murphy suggests that the two objectives put forth by the Bush plan make sense when considered separately, but supporters of the plan do not seem to realize that whatever benefits there are to the diversion of tax revenues into the private sector are exactly offset by increased government borrowing.  (2 pages, 2005)

Social Security Reform: A Free Market Alternative

By George Reisman

 

Reisman provides an alternative free-market approach to Social Security reform that phases the system out over a period of about 20 years.  (3 pages, 2005)

Robbing Peter to Pay Peter

By Christopher Westley

 

Distractions in the Social Security Debate

By Hans Sennholz

 

Save or Else

By Lew Rockwell

 

Roots of the Social Security Myth

By John Attarian

 

The Social Security Swindle

By Murray Rothbard

 

Social Security Reform: True and False

Dale Steinreich

 

 

 

 

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