I've always felt that to understand someone's perspective you have to understand their views on a number of issues. Only through looking at their views in aggregate can you begin to understand where they are coming from and why. In doing this, you're able to contrast their views with your own and broaden your perspective.

This page contains articles I find interesting as well as a series of numbered posts which I have written. Taken together, these form a synthesis of my views on a number of current issues (and yes, the numbered posts are ordered in such a way as to reflect their relative importance to me). Although I am not registered with either party, I tend to have a distinctively left slant. After reading my posts, consider the issues again in terms of the tradeoff between individual freedoms and economic freedom. (Check out the multi-axis spectrum linked in the left sidebar.)

Submit your comments to these posts - I look forward to hearing your views and responses. Whether we agree or disagree is irrelevant. The dialog is what matters. Our form of government relies on having an interested electorate and the very fact that we are discussing our views on these important issues perpetuates its success.

(7) Social Security

I support partial privatization.

Partial privatization would allow a portion (e.g., 50%) of an individual's social security contributions to be invested in managed funds. The other 50% could continue to be handled as it is currently. This strikes a balance between the overriding policy objective of providing a baseline level of social insurance for retirement while still allowing a portion of the fund to potentially earn higher revenues. Moreover, with implementation of a Fair Tax system we would receive the additional benefit of an incentive toward savings which further reduces the social insurance risk associated with privatization. My position (50% partial privatization) would cut the short term privatization cost to the government in half while securing the solvency of our social security trust fund for many decades to come.
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