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Jul 18, 2011
A reasonable reading of the following 34 brief essays in American Experiment’s newest symposium—What Governmental Services and Benefits Are You Personally Willing to Give Up?—suggests that more Americans than generally assumed may be seriously willing to sacrifice when it comes to major entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. In the interest of balancing the nation’s skewed books, the columns similarly suggest that more people than routinely thought may be willing to forgo various exemptions and other tax breaks, including near-sacred deductions on home mortgage payments.
Jun 2, 2009
In this symposium, a roster of American Experiment Fellows provides their perspective on what it will take for Americans and Minnesotans to get serious about this impending entitlement crisis.
Oct 1, 2008
In the current campaign season, as in all campaign seasons in this golden age of marketing, much attention is being paid to key demographic groups. By most measures American Jews do not really qualify as a key group. “Key,” however, can mean something else: key to understanding. And in this sense American Jews perhaps do qualify.
