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President Bush's Personal Retirement Accounts: Saving Or Dismantling Social Security, Kathryn L. Moore
President Bush's Personal Retirement Accounts: Saving Or Dismantling Social Security, Kathryn L. Moore
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President Bush has long been a proponent of investing a portion of payroll taxes in the private sector. For example, in 1999, then-Governor George Bush said to free-market crusader Stephen Moore, "I just want you to know ... that I'm really committed to these private investment accounts." In 2001, President Bush directed a 16-member bipartisan commission, the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security, to formulate a plan for Social Security reform that included voluntary personal retirement accounts. But it was not until the beginning of his second term in office that President Bush began in earnest his crusade to fundamentally …