Privatizing Social Security: A Third Option (Part 1 of 2) : Part One: Basic...
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle comments on Social Security privatization options, noting that none say much of anything about the current private pension system, its advantages and limitations, nor...
View ArticlePrivatizing Social Security: A Third Option (Part 2 of 2) : Part Two:...
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle explains how raising the rate of contribution to private accounts by a significant amount, without a substantial increase in mandates or taxes might help clarify the...
View ArticleMandated Saving and the Fallacy of Aggregation
Because Social Security spends tax collections almost immediately, rather than putting them aside to fund future retirement costs, it is believed by many to reduce net national saving at a time when...
View ArticleSimple Arithmetic Driving Social Security Reform, The
The debate over Social Security reform is awash with numbers on changes in tax rates, benefit reductions, and saving patterns required to bring the system into balance for the long run. In this...
View ArticlePension and Saving Incentives By the Bushel-Load
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle lays out the complexity of the variety of pension plans offered by policymakers.
View ArticleFactors Influencing Retirement: Their Implications for Raising Retirement Age
This study sheds light on the impact on workers of a higher normal retirement age, using data from the 1990 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the 1994 wave of the...
View Article"Spending" the Surplus: Counting the Ways
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle considers the math behind President Clinton's proposal to spend 62 percent of the surplus on Social Security, with another share to be allocated to Medicare, and that the...
View ArticleA Government Match for Private Pension Saving?
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle examines the 1999 Clinton Administration proposal to create "USA" savings accounts. He concludes that the proposal for a match is one way to try to encourage greater...
View ArticleThe Private Pension Issues Raised By 'USA' Accounts
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle describes the many related issues that Congress will have to address if it decides to develop legislation to try to encourage the expansion of private pension assets along...
View ArticleThe Administration's USA Account Proposal (Part 1 of 3) : Part One: Genesis
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle comments on the apparent demise of the Clinton Administrations USA proposal, and examines its pros and cons.
View ArticleThe Administration's USA Account Proposal (Part 2 of 3) : Part Two: What's...
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle argues that there are advantages to the administration's USA account proposal. It would attempt to use some general revenues to fortify and build up the private pension...
View ArticleThe Administration's USA Account Proposal (Part 3 of 3) : Part Three: Why It...
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle argues that the fatal flaw in the administration's strategy behind its private pension proposal is that it is not integrated either with social security reform or with...
View ArticleSummers' Time: The Social Security Opportunity (Part 4 of 5)
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle gives the Treasury Department tips on how to make the most of their final months before the 2000 election--specifically with regard to Social Security.
View ArticleSummers' Time: Preparing Treasury for the Future (Part 5 of 5)
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle gives the Treasury Department tips on how to make the most of their final months before the 2000 election and prepare the Treasury for the future.
View Article5500 Not-So-EZ, The
Senior Fellow Euegene Steuerle discusses the sensibility of the Schedule 5500 EZ, a form used by so-called "one-participant retirement plans." The taxpayers involved are self-employed, with no...
View ArticlePrivate Pension Reform : An Issue in Waiting
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle describes the forces for private pension reform.
View ArticleDominant Budget Issue Facing the New President, The
Senior Fellow Eugene Steuerle makes the case for addressing the retirement of the baby boomers in economic policy sooner, rather than later. Delay, he argues, reduces the chances of long-term...
View ArticleWill Enron Lead to Enhanced Retirement Security?
The collapse of Enron brings out many tales, but none motivate action more than images of workers who now are left with little or nothing in the way of retirement plan benefits. In response, President...
View ArticlePension Reform Today and in 1974
In the early 1970s, a Democratic Congress and a Republican President (Nixon) became concerned about the lack of pension funding, vesting, and coverage for most Americans. They decided to do something...
View ArticleDefining Tax Shelters and Tax Arbitrage
This brief looks at tax shelters and tax arbitrage, and how they are similar to and different from 1980s tax shelters.
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