n for current retirees. However, some analysts have suggested that a privatized Social Securitysystem may provide a way out of this dilemma by taking advantage of the higher returns available in the stock market. Ifworkers could get a return on their Social Security taxes of 10 percent, the historical stock market increase, they could in theoryafford to do both. . Source: Richard B. McKenzie and Dwight R. Lee (authors), "Why Some of the Elderly Are Poor," Investor's Business Daily, June 25, 1999. ...
