Tuesday, April 19, 2011

My Perspective on the Budget Fight

Interesting point:

My Perspective on the Budget Fight, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty I don't think of the long-term budget fight as being between Democrats and Republicans or between rich and poor. I look at it as a fight between people with funded retirements and unfunded retirements.

If I have saved enough to support my lifestyle in retirement, then I have a funded retirement. If my neighbor who teaches in public school wants to support a similar lifestyle based on her pension, then she has a retirement that is somewhat unfunded. That is, as of now, her pension plan has only about fifty cents for every dollar of promised benefits.

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