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In the past week or so, I’ve heard from dozens of fearful readers asking about Donald Trump’s plans to privatize Social Security. I’m going to suggest that people relax. President-elect Trump and his cohorts may have plans to privatize the Social Security system, but I highly doubt those plans will ever see the light of day.

Actually, every Republican president since Ronald Reagan has vowed to privatize Social Security. And each one of those presidents rather quietly dropped the idea shortly after taking office. Why? Because the plan simply doesn’t work. Or to be more precise, it would be prohibitively expensive to switch from our current Social Security system to a privatized one. I will explain.

Almost every privatization plan I’ve ever seen backed by a legislator or president is what is commonly known as a “carve-out plan.” It is called that because it gets its funding by carving out a chunk of the current Social Security system. For example, currently 6.2 percent of a worker’s salary is deducted for Social Security taxes. A carve-out plan might specify that 4.2 percent continue to be used to fund Social Security, while 2 percent would be turned back over to taxpayers for them to invest on their own.

On paper, it may sound great. You get to keep a chunk of your payroll tax to do with what you want. And, of course, it is hoped you will invest that money, and not buy a new car or boat! (A better version of these plans mandates that the payroll tax portion you keep must be invested in one or more of several managed IRA-type accounts.)

But the often unexplained downside to these plans is that huge reductions would be necessary in future Social Security benefits. It’s just simple math. If you are going to carve out about one-third of the Social Security payroll tax to fund a worker’s private IRA account, then, obviously, future Social Security benefits for that same worker are going to have to be cut by at least one-third.

And here is the bigger problem with carveout plans. It’s not just future benefits for current workers that would have to be cut. But also benefits to current retirees would have to be radically reduced. Remember: Our Social Security program, like every major social insurance system in the world, is funded on a pay-as-you-go basis. This means the money deducted from today’s workers’ paychecks is used to fund benefits to current retirees. So if you cut the amount of money going into the system by a third, then the money coming out of the system must also be reduced by the same amount. In other words, you must eventually cut benefits to all current retirees by about 30 percent.

Of course, that is politically (and morally) unacceptable. Many past carve-out privatization plans promised not to reduce benefits to current retirees. But the only way to accomplish that is to take money out of the general funds of the Treasury to make up the Social Security payroll tax deficit in order to pay all promised future Social Security benefits. And we are not talking millions, or even billions, of dollars. We are talking many trillions of dollars.

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In other words, the transition costs of priva- individual worker’s investments, but rather the tizing Social Security are simply too high. Either investment policies of the Social Security trust the political and moral costs are too high to cut fu- funds. As has been explained countless times in ture Social Security benefits, or the economic costs this column, those funds have always been investare too high to dramatically increase the deficit to ed in U.S. Treasury bonds. One way to “privatize” avoid future benefit reductions. And I am betting Social Security would be to diversify the system’s that Donald Trump and the privatization schemers portfolio -- to invest some or all of Social Security on his transition team will eventually realize those funds in the private markets.

Such a practice could generate much steep costs and drop their plans -- at least their higher returns, albeit it with greater risk, than carve-out plans.

But there is an alternative to the carve-out Treasury bond yields. But here is the downside privatization plan. It is usually referred to as an to such a scheme. Once again, we are not talking millions or billions of dollars, but rather many tril“add-on plan.”

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DEAR DR. ROACH: For two to three months, I have been taking 17 grams of polyethylene glycol mixed in 8 ounces of water three times a week. Finally, I have found something that is effective in relieving my lifelong chronic constipation problem. In the past two months, however, I have lost approximately 10 pounds and at 5 feet, 4 1/2 inches tall, I now weigh 100 pounds. Could the weight loss be related to the use of the polyethylene glycol? -- P.D.M.

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ment for the chamber pot and racks that pulled out from one side to hold towels, and many had marble tops. With the arrival of indoor plumbing, the need for wash sets declined.

Your wash set was made around 1900 and would probably be worth $150 to $275.

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The enclosed mark is on the bottom of a set of six matching porcelain cups and saucers. Each piece is decorated with lavender flowers against a white background.

The set is in perfect condition. It is all that is left of my great-grandmother’s dinner ware.

My daughter would like to have them and wants to know more about the histor y and value.

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This is a photo of an ironstone wash set that belonged to my grandmother.

It was given to her by a ver y wealthy family in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the late 1890s or early 1900s. The set is in perfect condition and decorated with purple flowers, gold leaves and green bands. Included in the set are a large pitcher with a bowl, smaller pitcher, cup, covered soap dish and covered toothbrush dish.

Marked on each piece are a crown and the words “Germany -- RW -- Rudolstad,” along with gold letters and numbers.

What can you tell me about my wash set and its value?

Theodore Haviland has produced fine china since 1890.

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It all began when David Haviland, a New York porcelain importer, founded his first factory in Limoges, France. His son, Theodore, later started his own factory in Limoges in 1890. He introduced new innovative methods of decorating and firing and eventually became one of the leading manufacturers. The mark on your cups and saucers was used from 1895 to 1952. Each cup and saucer set might sell for $15 to $25. * * *

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This ironstone wash set was made in Europe around 1900.

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The mark you provided was used by L. Straus and Son, an importing firm located in New York from 1882 to around 1930. It imported fine porcelain from Rudolstadt, Thuringia, Germany, and later from its subsidiaries in Bohemia and France.

A plethora of ironstone and porcelain wash sets were made in Europe and the United States from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s. The sets usually also included a chamber pot and slop jar.

The pieces were placed on a washstand in the bedrooms. Some washstands had a special compart-

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The World Series championship ... I mean, that’s just great for you, Chicago, except for one little thing: You ruined sports.

Yes, we know how much you detested being the “loveable losers.” We know how badly you wanted to be like the rest of the obnoxious winners across this great land. We hope you got your money’s worth at the bars in Wrigleyville, hope it was everything you ever wished it could be, because you took away the one charming thing left in team sports. America is now completely devoid of a loveable loser, and there doesn’t appear to be any heir apparent.

In essence, the Cubs success has left no successors to the (non) crown. Green Bay fans, New Orleans Saints fans ... they have been satiated. You could have made a case for the New York Rangers fans that had to endure the chants of “1940,” or the Boston Red Sox fans that had to gnash their teeth amid jeers of “1918” while being force fed a steady diet of Babe Ruth fables.

The Royals won the World Series. Shoot, even the Maryland Terrapins won an NCAA basketball championship.

The Cubs were the last team that everyone kind of pulled for deep, deep down (St. Louis being the notable exemption), and there is no team on the horizon that even remotely fits the bill to replace them.

First of all, let’s dispel the myth that Chicago has been championship starved. This generation has seen the Second City finish first more often than any other city in America since 1990 when it comes to championships. When you add up all of the NBA, MLB, NHL and NFL championship wins from 1990 to today, Chicago leads the pack with 11 wins. Boston (9), New York (9) and Los Angeles (8) bow to you, and you’re not going to get any sympathy from anyone for being forced to watch Michael Jordan win six titles. You were never losers ... and with the exception of those stuck inside O’Hare for a layover, everyone likes Chicago, so knock it off.

The question now is, whom do we collectively pull for? The Buffalo Bills would have been a good candidate, but let’s face it, you can’t root for the Ryan brothers. Notre Dame? Nah ... win or lose, they air every week on NBC. Rutgers? No ... they’re too stabby in New Brunswick. You can’t root for the Cleveland Indians but you can now make a case for the Browns -- post-Johnny Football.

I’m thinking that maybe the St. Louis Blues could work, or maybe the Sacramento Kings, but they’re not sexy enough, really. Army, Navy and Air Force ... imagine if an armed forces squad could make it to the NCAA playoffs and knock off Alabama ... those are teams I think we all can get behind.

Sure it sounds a bit crazy, but weirder things have happened ... just ask the newly minted “lifelong” Cubs fan in the next cubicle. But to paraphrase Chicago’s own Chance the Rapper, hope you’re happy, hope you’re real happy, Chicago ... that was such a selfish thing to do.

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