Download or read book The Arithmetic of Tax and Social Security Reform written by Gerry Redmond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive assessment of the theory and workings of the POLIMOD tax-benefit model.
Download or read book Long Run Effects of Social Security Reform Prosposals on Lifetime Progressivity written by Julia Lynn Coronado and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Security Reform written by Peter A. Diamond and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also considered are the risks in the political process."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Social Security Reform Urban Institute written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features Social Security reform in the United States. Presents an article, "The Simple Arithmetic Driving Social Security Reform," by C. Eugene Steuerle, an economic consultant at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. Links to the Urban Institute and other related sites.
Download or read book Pension Puzzles written by Melissa Hardy and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rancorous debate over the future of Social Security reached a fever pitch in 2005 when President Bush unsuccessfully proposed a plan for private retirement accounts. Although efforts to reform Social Security seem to have reached an impasse, the long-term problem—the projected Social Security deficit—remains. In Pension Puzzles, sociologists Melissa Hardy and Lawrence Hazelrigg explain for a general audience the fiscal challenges facing Social Security and explore the larger political context of the Social Security debate. Pension Puzzles cuts through the sloganeering of politicians in both parties, presenting Social Security's technical problems evenhandedly and showing how the Social Security debate is one piece of a larger political struggle. Hardy and Hazelrigg strip away the ideological baggage to explicate the basic terms and concepts needed to understand the predicament of Social Security. They compare the cases for privatizing Social Security and for preserving the program in its current form with adjustments to taxes and benefits, and they examine the different economic projections assumed by proponents of each approach. In pursuit of its privatization agenda, Hardy and Hazelrigg argue, the Bush administration has misled the public on an issue that was already widely misunderstood. The authors show how privatization proponents have relied on dubious assumptions about future rates of return to stock market investments and about the average citizen's ability to make informed investment decisions. In addition, the administration has painted the real but manageable shortfalls in Social Security revenue as a fiscal crisis. Projections of Social Security revenues and benefits by the Social Security Administration have treated revenues as fixed, when in fact they are determined by choices made by Congress. Ultimately, as Hardy and Hazelrigg point out, the clash over Social Security is about more than technical fiscal issues: it is part of the larger culture wars and the ideological struggle over what kind of social responsibilities and rights American citizens should have. This rancorous partisan wrangling, the alarmist talk about a "crisis" in Social Security, and the outright deception employed in this debate have all undermined the trust between citizens and government that is needed to restore the solvency of Social Security for future generations of retirees. Drawing together economic analyses, public opinion data, and historical narratives, Pension Puzzles is a lucid and engaging guide to the major proposals for Social Security reform. It is also an insightful exploration of what that debate reveals about American political culture in the twenty-first century. A Volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology
Download or read book The Reform of Social Security written by A. W. Dilnot and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of reforms needed in the welfare state social security system of the UK - suggests an integrated approach comprising tax reform, administrative reform and other social policy measures to improve social protection for low income groups, one parent families, retired workers, the unemployed, etc.. Bibliography and graphs.
Download or read book Social Security Reform written by Ben "Ally" Templin and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Article examines the principal reform proposals that would increase tax revenue for the Social Security trust fund -- weighing the pros and cons of each. The Article also considers the prospects for political agreement on a reform proposal given the past efforts and the looming crisis.Part I of the Article recounts the latest data as of 2013 on insolvency projections and discusses the methods by which the Office of the Chief Actuary measures the effect of proposed reforms. Part II provides an overview of the payroll tax and benefit calculations. The factors used in calculating both tax and benefits are key components used in many reform proposals.The Article focuses on two types of tax reform proposals: (1) proposals that increase the tax rate, which are the subject of Part III; and (2) proposals that increase the maximum taxable income rate, which are discussed in Part IV. Part V examines the political realities of reform proposals and suggests ways in which political bargaining can be structured to maximize the chances of a proposal being adopted.
Download or read book The Social Security Payroll Tax written by Benjamin A. Okner and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prospects for Social Security Reform written by Olivia S. Mitchell and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1999-01-29 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States social security system is the nation's largest social insurance program. As such, it has a far-reaching impact throughout the economy, influencing not only old-age economic security but also many behaviors, including corporate employment policy, retirement patterns, and personal saving. In the past, the system's universal coverage and generous benefits ensured popular support to a degree enjoyed by no other form of "big government" social spending. Yet over two-thirds of all Americans today believe that the social security system will face bankruptcy by the time they retire. The question of social security reform—how to reform the system or whether the system needs reform at all—is the subject of heated debate at all levels of government, in the media, and among workers, pensioners, and employers. Prospects for Social Security Reform informs the debate by exploring why the system is at a crossroads today and what to do about it. Contributors detail the size and nature of the problem, explain views of key "stakeholders" regarding reform options, and report new evidence on how reform might affect the economy. Research findings and public opinion polls are analyzed, as are lessons from other countries experimenting with new ways to deliver old-age benefit promises. No other volume includes as diverse and expert a set of perspectives on reform and privatization as those gathered here from economists, actuaries, employers, investment managers, and representatives of organized labor. Among its chapters is the path-breaking study "Social Security Money's Worth," the 1999 winner of the TIAA-CREF's Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security.
Download or read book Social Security Reform written by Paul A. McCulley and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Privatizing Social Security written by Martin Feldstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the most important work to date on one of the pressing policy issues of the moment: the privatization of social security. Although social security is facing enormous fiscal pressure in the face of an aging population, there has been relatively little published on the fundamentals of essential reform through privatization. Privatizing Social Security fills this void by studying the methods and problems involved in shifting from the current system to one based on mandatory saving in individual accounts. "Timely and important. . . . [Privatizing Social Security] presents a forceful case for a radical shift from the existing unfunded, pay-as-you-go single national program to a mandatory funded program with individual savings accounts. . . . An extensive analysis of how a privatized plan would work in the United States is supplemented with the experiences of five other countries that have privatized plans." —Library Journal "[A] high-powered collection of essays by top experts in the field."—Timothy Taylor, Public Interest
Download or read book A Truly New Income Tax and Social Security System written by John Sable and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2011-09-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Required Reading for Government Leaders A new innovative approach as to how to reform our income tax and social security system. This proposed new system provides a fair, sensible, practical and politically feasible way to change the way the government taxes its citizens. It addresses the problem of unfairness of high income persons paying a much lower percentage of their income in taxes as lower income average working persons by providing a new somewhat progressive rate schedule for capital gain income while not having the rates so high that investing in business and the economy is discouraged. It also maintains the social security system with simply a transition from the current method of funding to a system where what taxpayers pay in is entirely returned to them with interest and it is funded. The proposed new system also provides for a combined flat tax with a progressive tax that provides fairness along with reasonable tax revenues for operation of government. It also indicates that government should each year determine the level of revenue to the government by setting a maximum rate of tax to be extracted from its citizens and then setting a budget at or below that amount in place of what seems to be the current system of setting the budget in excess of projected revenues.
Download or read book Reform of Income Tax and Social Security Payments written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Macroeconomic Effects of Social Security and Tax Reform in the United States written by Dennis P. J. Botman and published by INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We use the IMF's Global Fiscal Model to evaluate recent proposals to reform social security and the tax system in the United States. Introducing personal retirement accounts is unlikely to yield significant macroeconomic benefits unless it spurs additional fiscal consolidation to prevent a large increase in government debt. Similar benefits are obtained if the social security surplus is placed in a lockbox while maintaining the same debt target. Lowering the taxation of investment income is beneficial, but only if the reform is revenue neutral. Debtneutral social security and tax reform in the United States has large positive effects on the rest of the world.
Download or read book The Impact of Various Social Security Reform Proposals on Tax Progressivity and Effective Tax Rates written by Arthur Earle Young and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reform of Income Tax and Social Security Payments written by Liberal Party. Organization Committee and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taxation and Social Security Reform written by Robin Adams and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
