Fiscal Policy Scholar

Charles Blahous

1 article 2014

Charles Blahous is a public policy researcher and fiscal policy expert who served as a public trustee for Social Security and Medicare from 2010 to 2015. He is a senior research strategist at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He contributed analysis of federal fiscal policy to The Weekly Standard.

An Unfolding Fiscal Disaster

July 14, 2014 · Magazine

Imagine that it is 1937 and time for the first Social Security payroll taxes to be assessed on workers and their employers. Two years earlier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s new program was successfully sold to the American public as an ambitious yet fiscally responsible, self-financing…