Laurence Kotlikoff Quotes

• Either we pay the government's bills, or we leave them for our kids to pay. It's that simple.

  Laurence Kotlikoff

  Kids, Simple, Government

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• The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century.

  Laurence Kotlikoff

  Running, Country, Past

  "US 'could be going bankrupt'" by Edmund Conway, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 14, 2006.

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• While the feds ... leave Social Security off their books, the government's obligation to make benefit payments to current and near-term Social Security recipients is certainly no less real than its obligation to pay interest on its Treasury bonds.

  Laurence Kotlikoff

  Real, Book, Government

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• You might think that Social Security's family benefit maximum is what it sounds like, a straightforward dollar ceiling on the total amount that you, your spouse, and your children can receive on your earnings record and that the same ceiling would apply to everyone. But you'd be wrong. For starters, there's a rather weird and arguably unfair formula for calculating the family benefit maximum.

  Laurence Kotlikoff

  Children, Thinking, Unfair

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you are advocating full retirement benefits starting at 60, my reaction is the system is already 31 percent underfinanced and can not afford what it's now doing, let alone such a policy change.

  Laurence Kotlikoff

  Retirement, Policy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I hope the new health care exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act will provide some help.

  Laurence Kotlikoff

  Care, Helping, Health Care

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Retirement is a waste of time. The economy needs you!

  Laurence Kotlikoff

  Retirement, Wasting Time, Economy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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