Daily Debunker

March 17, 2005

In two unique articles covering the Social Security debate, the Washington Post this morning uses the word "skepticism" to describe public attitudes toward personal retirement accounts, citing its own survey as proof of that "skepticism."

However, as the Cato Institute has pointed out, public support for Social Security has climbed to 56%, according to the Post's own poll. Moreover, public support for PRAs is now higher than it was in December. In fact, support for PRAs is at its highest level since 2000:

Would you support or oppose a plan in which people who chose to could invest some of their Social Security contributions in the stock market?

	Support	Oppose	No Opin.
3/13/05	56	41	3
12/19/04	53	44	3
7/15/02	52	45	3
4/22/01	53	46	2
10/30/00 LV	52	45	3
10/30/00 LV	58	35	8
9/6/00 RV	59	37	4
5/10/00	64	31	5