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Feb 06

Finding hidden positives

TEMPE, Arizona. Edward C. Prescott stands quickly, walks to his blackboard, and writes an equation for growth. The last item in the equation is "plus residual." He underlines it with his chalk. The word "residual" is to economists as dark matter is to astrophysicists--- it's something that's there but...

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May 05

The New Tax Reality

A tiny flickering light has emerged from the Social Security debate: The payroll tax is a tax, period. If you are at least 50 years old, it may be something better. If you are younger, it is just a tax. If it is "just a tax"--- money taken from paychecks with little prospect for future benefit--- we...

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Apr 05

Future Retirees Will Pay More Taxes

If you want to replace your purchasing power in retirement, you'll have to pay more taxes to Uncle Sam today. You'll have to pay still more tomorrow. This will happen because Uncle Sam has had the power to tax Social Security benefits since 1983. Few noticed back then because so few were taxed. One half...

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Aug 04

A New Kind of Deficit Is Coming Our Way

Do debt and deficits matter? Dallas reader D. Smith and his brother-in-law differ. Smith writes, "I am of the opinion that the federal debt is relative in the scheme of our economy…" As long as it remains reasonable relative to GDP, he says, debt doesn't matter. His brother-in-law disagrees. He thinks...

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Jul 04

Follow The Cash

An old adage of detective work is very direct: "Follow the money!" But when you examine government finances you have to be more specific. You have to follow the cash--- the actual money collected. In her annual letter to workers, for instance, Social Security Commissioner Jo Anne Barnhart puts us to...

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Jul 04

Understanding Social Security, the Trust Fund, and Future Benefits

For most people it's TMI--- Too Much Information. In recent weeks, one reader confidently informed me that Social Security has no unfunded liabilities "because it is a pay-as-you-go program." Another reader wrote that future benefits wouldn't be threatened if Congress hadn't spent the money in the Social...

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Apr 04

Gay Marriage Would Not Endanger Social Security

Q. Am I right in thinking that under Social Security a surviving spouse can collect benefits based on his or her earnings record or that of the deceased spouse? Much of what homosexuals say they want to accomplish by getting "married" can be accomplished by contract or other paper work, but not the realization...

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Feb 03

How The Tax Torpedo Hits

Portfolio managers call them "torpedo stocks." They are the disastrous stock that can sink the performance of a portfolio. Well, allow me to introduce the Torpedo Tax, the single tax that can reduce your retirement standard of living. It's the tax on Social Security benefits. It is experienced as a high...

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Feb 03

Truth in Promising

The only fair tax is one paid by someone else. This is common knowledge. The ink on my recent tax column had barely dried when e-mails from furious readers started piling in. Three readers out of four concluded I was a misguided socialist, possibly even a democrat, in favor of raising taxes. Here are...

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Aug 00

The Retiree Tax

Does $60,000 or $70,000 a year strike you as a Fat Cat income? Probably not. While millions of Americans would dearly love to earn that much, $5,000 or $6,000 a month isn't the sort of income that keeps Town and Country, the Robb Report, and Vogue stuffed with advertisements for luxury goods. So let...

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