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60 Plus Association - Social Security
Conservative seniors advocacy group advocating personal, private savings accounts.
American Prospect Social Security Coverage
Articles arguing that people will be worse off if Social Security is privatized.
Americans for Tax Reform
Articles advocating privatization and personal accounts.
Andrew Grossman: Saving the Social Security system
The Bush administration looks to be gearing up for a push on Social Security reform.
Arguments Outline: The Social Security Debate
Outlines and elaborates arguments advocating privatization of Social Security system.
Bush's Plan to Loot Social Security
Accuses privatization proponents of lying about the current situation to gain control over the money involved.
Business Week - Whose Social Security Stash Is It?
Essay exploring how money put into a private account won't really belong to people in the way a paycheck does.
Campaign for America?s Future - Sign the Pledge
Petition drive to oppose diverting any Social Security revenues to private investment accounts.
Cato Institute - Project on Social Security Choice
Promoting privatization of Social Security and creation of private accounts.
Cato Social Security Choice Papers
Collection of libertarian essays that advocate and analyze privatizing Social Security.
Center For American Progress - Primer on Presiden
An economist analyzes Bush's plan and finds it would force massive benefit cuts, cost trillions in new borrowing, weaken its financial outlook; plus how government "clawback" would eat into any gains in private accounts.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Arguments against the privatization of Social Security.
Chicago Sun-Times - Social Security Plan an Ideolo
Editorial by William O'Rourke finding stark contradictions in Bush's plan and sees his attempt as an ideological battle seeking victory instead of an economic one seeking a solution.
Citizens for a Sound Economy
Advocating in favor of individual private accounts.
Club for Growth - Social Security Choice
Advocating in favor of private Social Security Accounts.
Don't Privatize Social Security
The AFL-CIO labor union's opinion on privatization and other Social Security issues.
Estelle James
Research and advocacy on the subjct of Social Security reform, with a focus on privatization.
For Our Grandchildren
Advocates Social Security reform through the creation of private accounts.
Gambling With Your Retirement
New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman reads through the rhetoric and finds the privatization scheme is really a government loan that may leave retirees with little or nothing.
Heritage Foundation - Social Security Reform Cente
Arguing that privatization is necessary to preserve Social Security benefits.
Heritage Foundation Social Security Calculator
Heritage Foundation's take on the future of Social Security.
Institute for America's Future
Arguing for the continuation of Social Security without privatization, with guide to issues, news, and resources.
Institute for Policy Innovation
Arguing that Social Security reform should include private accounts.
International Center for Pension Reform
Promotes the reform of government-run pension systems along the Chilean model of private savings accounts.
Los Angeles Times - Kinsley's Proof That Soci
Contends that Social Security privatization is not just unlikely to succeed, it is mathematically certain to fail.
Los Angeles Times - The Meathead Proposition
Asserts the logic on privatization fails because Bush assumes one thing to claim there is a problem, and then something different to claim he has the solution.
National Center for Policy Analysis
Arguing for changes in indexing and private accounts in the reform of Social Security.
National Center for Policy Analysis
Non-profit public policy research institute advocating private sector solutions.
National Center for Policy Analysis - 12-Step Plan
Advocating privatization of Social Security.
National Center for Public Policy Research - Healt
Advocacy of privatization of Social Security, and against national health care coverage.
National Organization for Women - Social Security
Oppozing privatization or benefits cuts for Social Security.
Newsday - Investment Pros: Don?t Touch Social Secu
Asks if it is a good idea to trade in the guaranteed benefit of Social Security for a private investment account, and finds it is not worth the risk.
President's Commission to Strengthen Social S
Presents principles and findings of the Commission, presenting three models for privatization.
Privatization: The Ultimate 'Lockbox' fo
Argument in favor of private accounts, from Tech Central Station.
Retiring with Dignity: Social Security versus Priv
From the Cato organization. A position paper supporting privatization of Social Security.
Rolling Stone - The Fake Crisis
Economist Paul Krugman explains Bush's argument to privatize social security as a swindle that will cost Americans trillions of dollars.
Salon - Bush's Dirty Little Secret
Here's what the president didn't say in his State of the Union address: his plan to privatize Social Security will be hugely expensive and will make the average worker worse off.
Salon - Social Absurdity
The push to entrust the rapacious financial industry with Social Security money is being led by a former advisor to murderous Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Save Social Security
Advocating the transition of Social Security into a totally privatized program. From Vutec Corporation.
Social Security Information Page
Information and links about Social Security privatization in the context of President Bush's 2000 campaign for the White House.
Third Millennium
Advocating the creation of private Social Security accounts.
U.S.News & World Report - Conjuring Up a Crisi
Analyzes Bush's plan and finds despite Bush's promises to help posterity, it does nothing to solve Social Security's financial problems and would instead sink America deeper into debt.
UAW Region 8 - Save Social Security
Statement from the United Auto Workers Union arguing that privatization is detrimental to workers, costing trillions of dollars and requiring massive cuts in benefits.
USA Next
Advocating for private retirement accounts.
White House's Social Security Page
President Bush's plan to reform Social Security. Personal retirement accounts, rate of return on Social Security tax dollars.
Z Facts - Social Security FAQ
Asks if Social Security really is in trouble, why it is important, and who wants to privatize it.