Social Security Needs a New Inflation Calculator | Policymakers cling to a 1970s consumer-price index formula that overstates cost increases and drives up automatic spending. -by Romina Boccia wsj.com/opinion/social…

Rand is right and anyone telling you otherwise is a political grifter. Avg age when social security was implemented was in the 60s. Most were never supposed to collect at all, much less live 20 years on it. This is why it’s going broke. If this change doesn’t happen no one will

I know people just like to rant and rave on this topic, but when social security was created, life expectancy was *less* than 65. Rand Paul is telling you what you are too emotionally stunted to accept. We either have to raise the age or up the SS tax because it is bankrupt.

Bonchie Bonchie, I just finished the best book on this subject (in recent years) and there *are* solutions. This is it, by the great Romina Boccia.

‘we have a president whose personal family fortunes are mostly tied now to crypto. And what's the way you make crypto go up? You debase the dollar, you create chaos.’ Derek Thompson

Some difficult facts about Social Security: All that money you were forced to pay in has been stolen by the government and spent on other programs. Your “benefits” will be financed by stealing from you again by printing money the government doesn’t have to give you the benefits

Ian Jaeger Both have to be done. Please read the new book by Romina Boccia, below. It's excellent. And, honestly: the US *has no choice.*

The CPI figure Social Security uses is outdated, costing taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars each year, writes Romina Boccia on.wsj.com/48QJtZn

this one chart blows up so many narratives

Since 1983 the relative wealth of seniors has increased by around 50%. You would never guess this from news coverage of Americans' retirement savings. nber.org/digest?page=1&…

Now more than ever

Excellent Wall Street Journal Opinion piece by Allysia Finley that explains some of this Democratic cities dumping early retiree public sector workers into the exchanges The COVID credits exacerbate this Escalates taxpayer costs and makes the risk pool older & sicker wsj.com/opinion/the-ob…