Tag Archives: FDR

FDR’s “Voluntary” Social Security

Posted on March 24, 2009 , Updated on March 27, 2009

Q: Did FDR promise that Social Security would be voluntary? Did Democrats end tax deductions for Social Security withholding? A: Social Security has never been voluntary and taxes paid to support it have never been deductible from federal income taxes. A widely e-mailed "history lesson" gets nearly all its facts …
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Biden, FDR and the Invention of Television

Posted on September 24, 2008

In a sit-down interview with CBS Evening News’ Katie Couric that aired Sept. 22, Sen. Joe Biden tried to make a historical comparison between political leadership during the trying economic times of today and yesterday. But he got some of his history wrong. Biden told Couric: “When the stock market crashed, …
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