Thomas Savidge
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Jul 23, 2026
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- Jul 20, 2026
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States Relying on Federal Aid Face a Reckoning (opens the original)
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These movements matter because people carry income, consumption, and entrepreneurial energy with them. A state that loses residents and businesses loses workers, consumers, entrepreneurs, and, ultimately, taxpayers. Government spending pressures, however, do not automatically fall at the same pace as a shrinking tax base. Much of state spending is “locked in” to promises made years ago: debt service on bonds, pensions and benefits to public employees, Medicaid, infrastructure, and public payroll
An Evergreen Warning About Social Security (opens the original)
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The authors argue that Social Security should return to the program’s original purpose: old-age poverty protection. The book’s strongest point is that solvency and purpose are separate questions. Congress could close the gap through higher payroll taxes, benefit cuts, borrowing, heavier taxation of benefits, a higher retirement age, or some combination. None of those prescriptions answers what Social Security is for. If the goal is old-age poverty prevention, a flat benefit makes sense. If the g
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