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49% Say Workers Should Be Able To Opt Out of Social Security (Rasmussen, 8/21/09)

Forty-nine percent (49%) of U.S. voters say working Americans should be allowed to opt out of Social Security and provide for their own retirement planning.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 37% disagree and do not believe Americans should be able to opt out of Social Security. Fifteen percent (15%) are not sure.

A majority of voters under 50 say workers should be allowed to opt out.

George W. Bus ran against a popular Vice President at a time of unprecedented peace and prosperity and then was the first war president since FDR to be re-elected with personal SS accounts as one of the central planks of his Ownership Society. Even the Stupid Party has to be able to figure out the message there. Combine them with universal HSAs, O'Neill accounts and personal unemployment insurance and you make the GOP the party that's identified with a generous and durable social safety net.

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 21, 2009 11:26 AM