We can have Social Security solvent for another 75 years with just a few modest changes.
Social Security's actuaries assert that a two-percentage-point increase in payroll taxes would render the system solvent for another 75 years.
And he wants to make it stronger and solvent for the future, because it is an important element of security for our seniors.
Compared to Medicare, Social Security is actually in reasonably good shape, and with some relatively small adjustments, you can have that solvent for a long time.
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But the Congressional Research Service found in 2010 that doing away with the payroll tax cap would keep Social Security solvent for at least the next 75 years.
That could cut the Gordian knot of immigration reform: America will be yearning for more immigrants, documented or not. 4% growth (somewhat less, actually) makes Social Security and Medicare solvent for as far as the eye can see. 4% growth is the key to the goal of Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to rebrand the GOP as the Great Opportunity Party.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the failure of one or many banks in 2008 would not have led to a collapse in credit for solvent companies.
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You'll remember, that agreement said the emergency bailout facility, the EFSF, would henceforth play the role of "European Monetary Fund", able to intervene in markets to keep borrowing costs for solvent governments under control.
Legislation significantly increased the public funds available for bank restructuring, and established a general framework for recapitalizing weak but solvent banks, as well as for dealing with insolvent banks through temporary nationalizations and bridge banks.
Are there really so many daytraders out there who are holding leveraged ETFs for a single day, and guessing right about market direction often enough to stay solvent and continue coming back for more?
And the government is solvent in that it paid for everything.
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That was required in the original treaty of 1997 and was never enforced, and it was repeatedly broken by Germany and France though Germany has reputation for being highly solvent and fiscally prudent.
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The coating for the Eden Foods canned products is a solvent-based technology that is commonly used in 3-part cans for mild foods, such as beans.
The back-and-forth events of Borders trying to stay solvent have been front page news for months.
And were the ECB ready to provide unlimited liquidity to solvent states, as it does for banks, it might not have to buy so many dodgy bonds.
They have been emboldened by the success of the ECB's three-year bank loans in pushing down bond yields for troubled-but-solvent countries like Italy and Spain.
The crucial component for making this material is an exotic solvent called 1-butyl, 3-methylimidazolium chloride.
Third, for those few companies that are still solvent, there are no liquid asset markets in which to invest.
If so, loans and securities alike would have been sold at bargain basement prices to solvent banks, not to mention intrepid investors looking for value.
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Some economists have argued that this market makes his prescription obsolete: there is no need for a central bank to save a solvent but illiquid bank, they say, because the interbank market does the job instead.
Northern Rock said that its profits for 2007 would be hit, but that it remained solvent.
We learn that water is an immensely powerful solvent, which in turn makes it work wonderfully as a transport system for the body.
As a result, say the Democratic boffins, Social Security benefits would have to be cut by 54% for those 30 or younger in 2002 to keep the system solvent.
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They provided much of the financing for the company to emerge from Chapter 11 and try to become solvent again.
It would not address the crucial issue of which governments are solvent and which are not. (Though it would provide a forum for doing that.) Nor would it get the ECB out of the business of rescuing governments - though at least it would now be doing so at one step removed.
Schilling was deeply critical of the Governor for scaring off private investors and hamstringing his efforts to keep the company solvent.
Corporate greed is blamed for the decision, and technically that is true if one defines corporate greed as staying solvent.
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Pretending that Medicare is financially solvent while ignoring the facts about the declining acceptance of Medicare and the future of health care access for seniors under the ACA is worse than misguided policy, it is outright dishonesty.
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