Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: RE: Regressivity of FICA and EITC phaseout (Re: Richard Rorty and social security

2000-03-07 Thread Joel Blau
Max: Then, you are trying to find a way to do targeting within universalism, and we agree. I thought for a long time that something like what you are doing is the way out of the dilemma I described, so I'd be interested in seeing what you come up with. Joel Blau Max Sawicky wrote: > This is

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: RE: Regressivity of FICA and EITC phaseout (Re: Richard Rorty and social security

2000-03-07 Thread Max Sawicky
This is the classic problem of universalism vs. targeting efficiency, but I'm not sure I come down on the same side you do. On the universalistic side, money for the poor requires, as a kind of informal political blackmail, money for the rich (or at least the more affluent). Targeting focuses the