The federal government appears to have declared war on retirement. Unlike other wars, this one isnt only undeclared, it wasnt even intended. But, intended or not, the federal government has taken a series of steps that have given us a war nonetheless.
Ironically, this war began with Social Security in 1935. Rather than establishing a forced savings program wherein people would save money during their working years and withdraw during retirement, the government established a Ponzi scheme wherein later participants paid off earlier participants. As with all Ponzi schemes, the program was sustainable only so long as there were more people paying in than were drawing out. By the early1980s, too few people were paying in, and Congress fir…
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