If Social Security were run like Medicare

Those who oppose changing Medicare into a voucher program for “private” insurance should support running Social Security like today’s Medicare: authorities would assign housing to seniors and “pick up government-approved groceries for little or no money.”

Make a word meaningless: add “social” in front of it!

Michael Cannon at the Cato Institute makes a great point: [HuffPo blogger Jesse Larner writes that] “Cannon is not in favor of universal coverage as a social right.” True, that.  “As a libertarian, he doesn’t even recognize the concept of social rights.”  I believe it was Friedrich Hayek who said there’s no better way to […]