Income Taxes: The Solution to the Social Security and Medicare Crisis?

March 27, 2000

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The goal of this hearing is to determine whether income tax dollars are the answer to the Social Security and Medicare funding crisis.

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Date: March 27, 2000
Time: 2:00 p.m.
562 Dirksen

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Statements of Committee Members

Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman, Iowa

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Witness Testimony Panel 1:

1. Dr. Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C.
   
   

Witness Testimony Panel 2:

1. The Honorable David Wilcox, Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, Treasury Department, Washington, D.C.
   
   
2. Dr. Paul Posner , Director, Federal Budget Issues, General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C. (no prepared statement provided)
   
   
3. Dr. Eugene Steuerle, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.
   
   

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Hearing Publications

• Committee on Aging Print: 106-25

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