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To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (54292)12/17/2007 5:51:31 AM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) of 78421
 
"I would then work to transition to a market system, phasing in an option for younger workers to opt out of Social Security and Medicare taxes in return for agreeing to provide for their own retirement and health care needs without participating in a government entitlement program."

I think this is naive. He is obviously well meaning, but the above is no pecuniary solution to the entitlement problem. In fact there are hordes of under employed, and unemployable (so called) in the inner cities, breeding like rabbits and depending on crime. When people wanted to employ them for a few bucks, there was an outcry, that the investors were "using" the people. huh? Like any other employer doesn't? The real answer to the entitlement boondoggle is not just efficiency in government, it is about having an economy to support the people. That means getting government OUT of the labour regulation game. There needs to be a black market that people with money can partake in. They cannot afford the government red tape that goes with hiring people part time and for odd jobs. The principle difference between yesterday and today, is that there is no economy in small business and part time work anymore. This is because of government bureaucracy. We are dying from excess government. Don't ask why there is poverty in Appalachia. The answer is in Washington in a horde of unworkable labour laws.

I guess you could call it the tragedy of the commons.

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