Destroying Social Security does nothing to advance individual freedom.

by Matthew Yglesias

The American Prospect

01/25/05

"[A]s the president's case that Social Security is in crisis continues to crumble, conservatives are busy ginning up new reasons to phase the program out and replace it with a system of mandatory investments in private stock funds. As George Will put it on January 20 in The Washington Post, the really important reasons for destroying the most successful program in American history are 'philosophic.' It's all about choice. All about freedom.

... My friend Will Wilkinson ... now a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, ground zero for privatization, recently recommended Daniel Shapiro's old Cato paper 'The Moral Case for Social Security Privatization,' which argues that privatizing social security is all about 'maximizing individual choice and liberty...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=9104


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp