The origins of the ownership society : how the defined contribution paradigm changed America / [electronic resource]
Zelinsky, Edward A.
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2007.
America today is a defined contribution society, saving for retirement, health care and educational savings through IRAs, 401(k) accounts, 529 programs, FSAs, HRAs, HSAs and other individual accounts which did not exist a generation ago. This book describes the defined contribution revolution, its causes, and implications.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How are they different? the defined benefit and defined contribution formats contrasted as a matter of plan design -- Why does it matter? allocating risk and reward between employer and employee -- How did It Happen?-- Why did it happen? and why social security accounts didn't -- What does it mean? consumption taxation, tax expenditures, and the future of the internal revenue code -- What is the future of the defined contribution paradigm? -- What should we do?
America today is a defined contribution society, saving for retirement, health care and educational savings through IRAs, 401(k) accounts, 529 programs, FSAs, HRAs, HSAs and other individual accounts which did not exist a generation ago. This book describes the defined contribution revolution, its causes, and implications.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Description based on print version record.
Social security
Social security individual investment accounts
Retirement income
Internal revenue law
Spendings tax
Taxation of articles of consumption
Taxation of articles of consumption
Social security
Social security individual investment accounts
Retirement income
Internal revenue law
Spendings tax
Taxation of articles of consumption
Law - U.S.
Law, Politics & Government
Law - U.S. - General