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- From: mayo@pa.dec.com (Bob Mayo)
- Newsgroups: pnw.general
- Subject: Re: Tax the rich!
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 02:00:20 GMT
- Organization: DEC Western Research Lab
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- In article <2399@shaman.wv.tek.com> andrew@frip.wv.tek.com writes:
- >[]
- >
- > '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.
-
- ...
-
- >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.
-
- The only suitable thing to do is to invest the money so that we are a
- wealthy country when we retire. After all, the value of the fund is
- dependent upon the strength of whatever it is invested in.
-
- Here's what I was trying to say in my statement.
- Our retirement depends upon having a good economy when we
- retire. We should invest in a manner that will give us a surplus of food,
- a surplus of housing, cheap health care, factories that crank out
- products at little cost, etc, etc.. This is the invest in private
- industry scenario. The alternative is to have a large government,
- large social programs, etc.. This won't get us very far if the economy
- isn't booming. A few government programs do invest in the future:
- meals for kids, education, infastructure spending. I'm not against putting
- retirement dollars into those.
-
- With the low population growth rate we now have, the number of workers per
- retired person in the year 2025 will be much lower than now. We need to invest
- the retirement money in such a way that will make those future workers produce
- more goods than they can now for the same amount of effort. (Extreme example:
- If in the future we can crank out a heart-bypass operation for the price of a
- sack of potatoes, then there will be no problem funding heart-bypass
- operations.)
-
- --Bob
-