Rick Perry’s claim of higher returns from Social Security alternatives

Thank you for using rssforward.com! This service has been made possible by all our customers. In order to provide a sustainable, best of the breed RSS to Email experience, we've chosen to keep this as a paid subscription service. If you are satisfied with your free trial, please sign-up today. Subscriptions without a plan would soon be removed. Thank you!

Question: "Gov. Perry, what would you do to transform it [Social Security] from what you have described as a 'Ponzi scheme?'"

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R): "One of the other things that we talked about in the book, 'Fed Up,' was that states could open back up for their employees and/or their retirees -- we did that in the state of Texas back in the `80s. Those counties that participated in that have somewhere between 3 and 5 percent more going to their -- or three to five times more going to their participants who opted out of Social Security."

Read full article >>

Ylan Q. Mui 03 Oct, 2011

--
Source: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=4a14ee4955cd72c3e23262766198a83f
~
Manage subscription | Powered by rssforward.com