Reply #20: Social Security could be fixed much more cheaply, and more simply if they [View All]

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just lifted the maximum salary where people quit having social security taken out of their checks....which I believe is now $87,000/yr...or 84, or something like that.

If they just made sure that ALL salaried employees -- no matter WHAT amount they made -- had the same percentage taken out of their check, and matched by the company -- then it would totally fund social security, forever.

Instead, they want to spend TWO TRILLION dollars re-vamping it into privatized accounts!!!

If they just lifted the maximum salary cap, then all those people making over $87,000/yr. would be paying more into the system, as well as those CEOs that are making $9 MILLION a year... let's see... what is 14% of $9 Million??? That is a chunk of change that would easily fund social security, if everybody in this country was treated equally!

I say we quit giving people that make over $87,000/yr a totally unnecessary advantage. I say that they should keep paying into social security every month like the rest of us!

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