Bloomberg’s Flawed Response to Social Security Shortfall: Americans Should Pay More and Get Less

The editors at Bloomberg have decided that condemning younger workers to a more dismal future is the best way to deal with the Social Security program’s giant long-run shortfall. They want workers to pay higher taxes to prop up the bankrupt system. And, in exchange for those higher taxes, they want to give people less [...]

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From the U.K., another Great Moment in Government-Run Healthcare

I’ve written several times about the sometimes-deadly shortcomings of government-run healthcare in the United Kingdom (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here), so I like to think I’m relatively immune to being surprised. But this story from the Telegraph is a shocking combination of tragedy and farce. Some regional healthcare bureaucracies are [...]

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