Dallas County Democrats
State Republican Platforms: Social Security

These are excerpts from Platforms and Resolutions passed by various state Republican parties this year. They show how far out of the mainstream are the extremists that have taken over the Republican party.

• Texas: The Party supports an orderly transition to a system of private pensions based on the concept of individual retirement accounts, and gradually phase out the Social Security tax.
• Nebraska: We encourage privatization of the Social Security System.
• Iowa: We demand the right to place a portion of our Social Security contributions into a privately controlled account. In addition, we support changes, which allow workers to opt out of the Social Security system in favor of personal retirement accounts.
• Indiana: To these ends, we propose: ... Development of personal options for social security to stabilize the system and allow individuals to reap the true retirement benefits of their personal social security contributions.
• Iowa: We believe that Personal Savings Accounts should be phased in for younger workers as a replacement for the current Social Security.
• Minnesota: We support the following reforms: ... Supporting financially sound Social Security and Medicare systems. This includes individual discretion and ownership on a portion of Social Security contributions, while maintaining our obligations to older Americans.
• Missouri: Therefore, the Missouri Republican Party supports: ...offering people the option of exercising individual control over a portion of their FICA contributions.
• Washington: At the national level, we support: ... A private option for Social Security.
• Wisconsin: Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Republican Party of Wisconsin, in convention assembled, does hereby resolve the following: ... That each participant in the Social Security system be given an individual Social Security account, that the funds in the Social Security trust fund be allocated among such accounts, and that each account holder be permitted to designate where those funds are to be invested (as is done with IRA's).

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