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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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Social Security pays more than $450 billion in benefits each year. If nothing is done, by 2060, the combination of Social Security and Medicare will account for more than 71 percent of the federal budget.
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"The largely Cato Institute-staffed presidential commission owes its existence to the Cato Institute itself. For the last quarter of a century, the Washington, D.C.-based libertarian think tank has been campaigning for the privatization of Social Security."

- William O'Rourke
Chicago Sun Times
August 28, 2001