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Publications
Policy Note 1999/2
| February 1999
The Emperor Has No Clothes
President Clinton’s Proposed Social Security Reform
If you were to write yourself IOUs to provide for your retirement and put them in a safety deposit box, would you rest comfortably, assured that you would be able to purchase all the necessities of life in 2020? Well, President Clinton’s proposal is even worse.