Monday, April 25, 2005

Okay, here's a slightly more serious topic: social security reform. I wrote about it on Friday, because Rep. Paul Ryan introduced his plan on Wednesday. Now the Wall Street Journal weighs in on how to get people on board with reform.

Memo to Karl Rove: To win the Social Security debate, forget "solvency" and talk about liberty

You want to get people excited about personal accounts? Tell them about the 1960 Supreme Court case Flemming v. Nestor, which explicitly says Americans have no ownership rights to the money they pay into Social Security.

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