TIME: The Candidates on the Issues: George W. Bush

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GEORGE W. BUSH
Social Security
Bush proposes reforming Social Security by allowing younger workers to invest their payroll taxes in the stock market with tax-free investment accounts. Workers near retirement would keep the current system. Bush also wants to create "Individual Development Accounts" in which people could invest money tax free. The government would partially match what lower income workers put in the accounts.

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