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We have a winner in The Wall Street Journal editorial page competition — thanks to all the many readers who’ve sent me something. “Public Trust Busting” appeared in the Journal on my seventeenth birthday, May 18, 1998. It’s mostly dedicated to praising the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s support for partial privatization. But, they also write: “Now, let us acknowledge that ‘privatizing’ Social Security is not what Mr. Moynihan desires. His political goal is to reform Social Security just enough to be able to save its universal guarantee.” A misguided strategy, but not, I think, a malign one. More Washington Post editorial page than WSJ edit page. Certainly the Journal-ists do not approve: “No doubt many conservatives will want to go much further than the New Yorker, us among them.”

In other words, they wanted then what they want now — the elimination of Social Security as we know it.

Thanks to reader M.A. for the tip. I’d send you a t-shirt, but I don’t think I have that authority.

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