The looting of social security
Subtitle: how the government is draining America's retirement account
By: Allen W. Smith
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf trade pbk. ed
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: United States. -- Social Security Administration; Social security -- United States -- Finance
Description: "Allen W. Smith offers a brief history of Social Security, from its inception in 1935 to the present, including the enactment of the crucial 1983 Social Security tax increase. Then step by outrageous step, he details how the governments's promise to the American people - a pledge to never spend the Social Security Trust Fund - has been broken time and again. Most recently, Smith shows how George W. Bush has pillaged the Trust Fund like no president before him and used the Social Security taxes paid by working Americans to fund a series of huge tax cuts benefiting the wealthiest among us."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index