id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-005531 Privatization Would Mostly Aid Wall Street | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 932 44 62 A wing of the Republican Party opposed Social Security in1935, tried to block Social Security improvements in the 1950s and 1970s and in1972 helped to form the Cato Institute, a Washington think tank whose founding mission was to investigate making Social Security voluntary. In a society where the top 10% get drastic tax cuts and phenomenal returns to their assets while real wages fall for the middle class, the last thing we need is Social Security privatization making inequality worse. cache/news-005531.html txt/news-005531.txt