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<title>Social Security Reform--Posner</title>
<link>http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/02/social_security.html</link>
<description>One of the commonest objections to President Bush’s proposal for reform of social security is that there is no need to act now because there is no “crisis.” Yet the same people who say this are wont to say that...</description>
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<title>Straight Talk About Social Security</title>
<link>http://www.conservativephilosopher.com/posts/1107905574.shtml</link>
<description><![CDATA[<p class="firstinpost">Read <a href="http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2005/02/social_security.html">this blog post</a> by <a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/posner-r/">Richard A. Posner</a>.  Then read <a href="http://www.becker-pos...]]></description>
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<title>Becker and Posner Respond to Comments on Their Ideas on Social Security</title>
<link>http://www.thenationalpoliticalobserver.com/archives/2005/02/becker_and_posn.html</link>
<description>On February 12, 2005, University of Chicago Nobel Prize winning economist Gary Becker and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner posted responses to their arguments on Social Security. On February 6, 2005, Mr. Becker posted a column at...</description>
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<title>&quot;Why I Support a Privatized Individual Account Social Security System&quot;</title>
<link>http://coro.blogs.com/coro/2005/02/why_i_support_a.html</link>
<description>From The Becker-Posner Blog, which is typically formatted as an online conversation between the two University of Chicago professors. Gary Becker won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1992 .</description>
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<title>Posner on Social Security Reform (Becker-Posner)</title>
<link>http://www.dummocrats.com/links/?d=2005-02-10</link>
<description>Posner on Social Security Reform (Becker-Posner)</description>
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<title>Posner&apos;s Two Arguments for Forced Saving</title>
<link>http://blog.mises.org/blog/archives/003119.asp</link>
<description>Here Richard Posner argues against a free market and for mandatory savings and hence for Bush&apos;s privatization program: &quot;[I]t is plausible to model the individual as a succession of selves with different preferences. A young person may dislike the idea...</description>
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<title>PRIVATIZED INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS IN THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM</title>
<link>http://www.pejmanesque.com/archives/009329.html</link>
<description>Gary Becker is all for it: Today both Republicans and Democrats are passionately arguing about the future of social security. Although there is merit in each side’s argument, neither side is portraying the situation accurately. In my view, movement tow...</description>
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<title>The Becker-Posner Blog: Social Security Reform--Posner</title>
<link>http://www.ratcliffeblog.com/archives/2005/02/the_beckerposne.html</link>
<description> The Becker-Posner Blog: Social Security Reform--Posner: The issue of compulsory pensions should be decoupled from that of welfare. Some people cannot save enough to be able to retire on; the government should guarantee them a decent retirement income....</description>
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<title>Catching my eye:  morning A through Z</title>
<link>http://www.TheGlitteringEye.com/archives/000708.html</link>
<description>It&apos;s a very quiet day in the blogosphere this morning. I must admit that I&apos;m not too interested in Ward Chruchill, Eason Jordan, or the SuperBowl. But a few things have still caught my eye: Michael J. Totten tells all...</description>
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<title>Monday&apos;s Daily News</title>
<link>http://www.clubforgrowth.org/blog/archives/018586.php</link>
<description>TV Ads on Social Security Set to Air - Copley News Congressmen Face Ads from Club for Growth - Human Events An Off-track Rowback of the Clawback - Don Luskin, NRO The 46 Percent Lie - Heritage Foundation Cheney Says...</description>
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