Article 4EJZ6 Unlike Actual Insurance, Social Security "Insurance" Creates More Risk for the Future

Unlike Actual Insurance, Social Security "Insurance" Creates More Risk for the Future

by
from from FEE on (#4EJZ6)

Assertions that Social Security is essentially just insurance ignore the fact that benefits far exceeded "contributions" paid for earlier recipients every time it expanded. Social Security offered benefits by stealing a substantial part of what would be actuarially fair premiums from future generations.

External Content
Source RSS or Atom Feed
Feed Location http://feeds.fee.org/FEE-Freeman
Feed Title from FEE
Feed Link https://fee.org/articles/
Reply 0 comments