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is a fine program ---  as long as the economy and its tax base keep growing, there is nothing wrong with taxing current workers to finance current retirement.

In a January 1997 op-ed in the Washington Post, left-liberal Robert Kuttner wrote: 'Critics of the system call it a giant Ponzi scheme. But as long as the economy and its tax base keep growing, there is nothing wrong with taxing current workers to finance current retirement.'

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