Social Security Reform without Illusion: The Five Percent Solution

Thomas Saving

Thomas Saving

Andrew J Rettenmaier

Andrew J. Rettenmaier

If workers and their employers put 5 percent of payroll into an account each year to replace the government’s obligation, after one generation the burden of Social Security as a percent of national income will be no larger than it is today.  Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas Saving

John C. Goodman is President of the Goodman Institute and Senior Fellow at The Independent Institute. His books include the soon-to-be-published updated edition of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, the widely acclaimed A Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America, and New Way to Care: Social Protections that Put Families First. The Wall Street Journal and National Journal, among other media, have called him the “Father of Health Savings Accounts.”