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Personal Accounts for Social Security: Still the Best Deal

  • Nathan Benefield
  • October 31, 2008
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Michael Tanner has a post on Cato-at-liberty noting that personal accounts for Social Security would still be good, even considering recent stock market losses. That is, stock market gains over the past 40 years have outpaced Social Security returns – in fact, you’d have 16 times the amount of money in your account as what Social Security returns.



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