Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]
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- Subject: Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]
- From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 16:55:58 +0300
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"Monique Y. Mudama" <spam@bounceswoosh.org> wrote:
> Even though I just ripped into you a few posts ago, you do have a
> point here. It would be interesting if social security could be
> altered so that (this is just off the top of my head here, so I'm sure
> it's not by any means perfect, but maybe the glimmering of an idea):
>
> 1) By default, everyone pays into SS
>
> 2) Instead of the current system, every person has an individual SS
> account, from which their own retirement would later be drawn
>
> 3) That account would invest in CDs or some other extremely low-risk
> setup. Perhaps it could work like a bank instead, with an interest
rate
> based on balance (I'll admit I don't know enough about how banks work
to
> be sure that could work).
>
> 4) There would be a non-trivial, optional exam. If one passed the
exam,
> one could choose what to do with the money that would typically be
given
> to SS: leave it there, invest it, spend it on wine, women and song.
> Whatever. But the exam would have to be good enough to ensure that
the
> taker is financially well-educated, and taking the exam would have to
be
> expensive enough to be a deterrent (shouldn't be a problem since it
> would have to cover the costs of formulating the exam, etc).
Why so complicated? Just give people the option to *choose* between
public or private SS programs. The same for schooling. If I send my
children to a private school I wouldn't have to pay the tax and even
get back what I already payed since I started working. That would make
public schools compete against private schools.
Andrei
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