If we just uncapped social security contributions this wouldn’t be an issue. This is a manufactured crisis to convince people that socialism doesn’t work and we should go back to barbarism.
Exactly. SS is the easiest problem in DC to solve.
They don’t have to remove the cap, just raise it. Right now, it’s around $167K. Just raise it to $250K, or $500K, or $1 million. That would make it solvent again for decades.
Perhaps, but I like the idea of raising it incrementally, because then we get the chance to watch the super-wealthy cry about how the poor get all the breaks.
If we just uncapped social security contributions this wouldn’t be an issue. This is a manufactured crisis to convince people that socialism doesn’t work and we should go back to barbarism.
Exactly. SS is the easiest problem in DC to solve.
They don’t have to remove the cap, just raise it. Right now, it’s around $167K. Just raise it to $250K, or $500K, or $1 million. That would make it solvent again for decades.
we could just remove the cap and never worry about it again for as long as we can avoid dying from extreme weather
Perhaps, but I like the idea of raising it incrementally, because then we get the chance to watch the super-wealthy cry about how the poor get all the breaks.