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David B. Johnson: UW ‘father of Social Security’ would back raising the tax cap

As I see President Bush traveling about the country telling us of Social Security’s impending bankruptcy and describing, although not precisely, what he wants to do about it, I wonder what my teacher, Wisconsin’s own Ed Witte, would have to say….

(David B. Johnson, emeritus professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studied under Edwin E. Witte as a graduate student.)