The Medicare and Social Security taxes are jointly known as FICA (for Federal Insurance Contributions Act) — or payroll — taxes. The combined FICA taxes are highly regressive. The non-partisan Tax ...

Social Security Administration benefits and Medicare, which people receive after they retire, are not “entitlements,” because retirees have paid for them during their working years. It is not welfare, ...

The word “entitlement” simply means having a right to something. Rights are a social construct based on law and accepted norms of morality. Rights are always limited by the responsibility to respect ...

The fact that many don’t consider Social Security and Medicare as entitlement but rather as life and death issues speaks volumes for what the American people see as necessities of life. It drives me ...

We’ve all met people who have a sense of entitlement. Maybe it’s that person who tried to cut in front of you at the coffee shop. Perhaps it was someone who demanded to be seated before you at a busy ...

I agree with Malcolm Berko (“Social Security not entitlement; you earned it,” April 6) that prosperous, altruistic retirees should feel no remorse about accepting Social Security. But unlike Berko, I ...