Kean and the mystery of Social Security

This comes by way of Josh Marshall and Talking Points Memo, from a Nexus database search. It is from a 2000 AP story on Tom Kean’s unsuccessful Congresional race that year and sshould offer some light on the current Senate candidate’s position on Social Security (see Dispatches for what got this all started):

Morrisey and Weingarten support a flat-tax system, while Kean and Ferguson say they support something “flatter” than the current code. All favor school vouchers, at least experimentally in areas where public schools are failing. All support the idea of letting people invest part of their Social Security payroll taxes into a private investment account they would manage.

Thanks Josh.

South Brunswick Post, The Cranbury Press

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet