Here’s a thought: eliminate the ceiling. Individuals pay their FICO percentage for all their income and not stop at the $168k-ish that it is this year.
The high income phase out of social security tax has not been raised to match inflation. That must be done.
Unless you are a rich oligarch, then payments to dedicated middle class contributors to social security insurance program must be cut.
“Youth, large, lusty, loving—youth full of grace, force, fascination,
Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?”
So now Elonia is an expert on Social Security huh? Notice how the media doesn't ask that? Nor do they ask why somebody nobody elected is deciding things like ending USSS.
They vote to take away our benefits. We vote to take away their position. Vote them out of office. All of them. Let them know they won’t be coming back.
How can the richest man in the world possibly understand what this will be like for the average person? It’s why oligarchy eventually extinguishes the middle class. You knowingly chose this Republicans. Remember that.
Musk is so good at this (sarcasm) that is why Tesla is the worst vehicle for accidents and people are fleeing Twitter. Maybe we should wash that POS down the sink.
The only good part of them cutting SS is the fact I get to look my evangelical family members in the face and say I👏Told👏You👏So after they spent months saying Trump promised not to cut it.
Maybe a cut to SS could be buried deep in a bill or
Possibly tell workers ‘hey, if you save your own money, you’ll get this much back more if you invested it yourself’ plus less taxes taken out.
Then phase SS out slowly. That may(?) work. Quietly.
Fortunately, most times subtle the MAGA’s are not.
This administration intends only to line their own pockets... So long as these ultra rich folks loudly say they're doing better than ever, the poor fools that voted him in will take that as a diagnosis for the entire economy.
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Unless you are a rich oligarch, then payments to dedicated middle class contributors to social security insurance program must be cut.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?”
Go to hell.
Possibly tell workers ‘hey, if you save your own money, you’ll get this much back more if you invested it yourself’ plus less taxes taken out.
Then phase SS out slowly. That may(?) work. Quietly.
Fortunately, most times subtle the MAGA’s are not.
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