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Cato Survey of Congressional Candidates

October 11, 2000

The Cato Institute recently contacted all Democratic and Republican candidates for Congress and asked them - "Do you favor or oppose Social Security reform that would allow workers to save a portion of their payroll taxes in a personal retirement account?"

Click here to see how your own Congressman or his challenger answered. Responses are drawn from their answers to our survey, from other published sources, and from the candidates' campaign literature.

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Every two-year election cycle that we wait to reform Social Security costs an additional $320 billion.
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"Thursday's staff report 'does a terrific job of setting out both the stick and the carrot: the stick in the form of the financial crisis and the carrot in the form of a better Social Security system,' said Michael Tanner, director of the Social Security Privatization Project at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank that has strongly influenced the Bush administration's work in this area."

- Los Angeles Times
July 202001