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- From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
- Newsgroups: pnw.general
- Subject: Re: Tax the rich!
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 19:59:46 GMT
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- 'It seems to me that $1 invested in private industry will
- improve the economy more than $1 invested in the government.
- When I retire in the year 2025, I'd like to be able to say:
- "because of my social security dollars, US industry is large
- and profitable"'
-
- A private pension fund manager is required to manage the fund so as to
- preserve the pension, and is not allowed to put social engineering
- objectives over this fiduciary objective. The US stock market is
- particularly ill-suited for investment of Social Security funds. Such
- an investment would drive the prices of those stocks up to a new level,
- and then the prices would come down when the baby boomers retire and
- that stock must be sold. This would devastate the program.
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- In fact, there really is no suitable vehicle in which to invest all
- this money. But that's not likely to be a problem under the present
- federal policy.
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- -=- Andrew Klossner (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
- (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
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