Over at Forbes, University of Illinois economist Jeffrey Brown hits on one of my personal pet peeves: the misunderstanding of how Social Security’s “earnings test” workers. Retirees treat it as a “tax” on work, in part because SSA always told them it was. As a result, retirees work less.
In reality, as Jeff shows, the earnings test isn't a tax. Check out his whole piece for details.
And for more info, see my 2008 AEI paper: The Tax That Wasn’t.
Monday, August 11, 2014
Brown: “The Social Security Earnings Test Is Not A Tax”
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You have a couple of typos here.
The link to the piece doesn't work, S/B
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreybrown/2014/08/08/the-social-security-earnings-test-is-not-a-tax/
and 'how Social Security's earnings test workers -> s/b works.
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