If The Left Really Cared About Income Inequality, They’d Support Privatizing Social Security

If The Left Really Cared About Income Inequality, They’d Support Privatizing Social Security

Republicans ought to embrace the moral arguments about reducing inequality to make a fresh case for limited government on Social Security.

Over the past month, Democrats have begun to present their new big ideas for combatting income inequality as they jockey for position in the 2020 primary. Former Vice President Joe Biden talked a relatively moderate line in a recent speech at the Brookings Institution, calling for more infrastructure spending, a more progressive tax code, and stronger unions. Others, however, made more radical suggestions: Bernie Sanders has endorsed a universal jobs guarantee, as has Kirsten Gillibrand, while California Democrats have […]

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