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David Brooks and VDH

Posted by: Good Samaritan
on April 09, 2005 @ 08:02 AM EST

Victor Davis Hanson and David Brooks have written great pieces on why Bush's poll numbers are falling. Both of them think Social Security private accounts are unpopular because they (supposedly) involve borrowing. (Actually the so-called transition costs consist of turning unfunded liabilities into explicit debt.) Would private accounts attached to a payroll tax cap raise, a la Lindsay Graham, be more popular? (Probably not...)


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