Want to save Social Security? Privatize it.

**Posted by Phineas

Everyone who hasn’t been hiding under a rock knows that the two main pillars of our social welfare system, Medicare and Social Security, are in big trouble and threaten to wreck the nation’s finances. With regard to Social Security, Dan Mitchell suggests the way to save the program is to let everyone have private accounts:

Mitchell mentions several countries that have had success privatizing their social pension system. Chile is just one example of a country where privatization has worked wonders. Isn’t it time we took a hard look at doing the same thing, instead of just demagoguing the issue?

(Crossposted at Public Secrets)

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