Though he’s now coy, John McCain has pretty consistently supported privatizing Social Security at least since his 2000 presidential campaign. So Ben Furnas got the smart idea of making a graph showing what’s happened to the Dow since McCain unveiled his plan “to shore up Social Security through the establishment of individual investment accounts.”
Long story short, you lose eight percent in nominal terms.
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