Thursday, 04 December 2008
The Examiner
Distributed by Press Release EMAIL ARTICLE PRINT ARTICLE DALLAS (Map) - Debts Up To Three and Half Times Greater Than Entire U.S. Economy DALLAS, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- If the federal government stopped the Medicare and Social Security programs tomorrow -- collecting no more payroll taxes and allowing no more accrual of benefits -- it would still owe up to $52 trillion to those who have already earned these benefits, according to a new study by the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). Advertisement "The numbers are staggering," said Andrew Rettenmaier, an NCPA senior fellow...