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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tonto who wrote (112332)	9/8/2011 1:32:58 PM
From: joefromspringfield	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

Reagan was in favor of making Social Security benefits voluntary. According to Reagan biographer Lou Cannon, "I have no doubt that he shared the view that Social Security was a Ponzi scheme. He was intrigued with the idea of a voluntary plan that would have allowed workers to make their own investments. This idea would have undermined the system by depriving Social Security of the contributions of millions of the nation’s highest-paid workers."