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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCONgress needs to raise or ELIMINATE the S.S. Income CAP to PROTECT it for our children in 20 YEARS!
MENTION it, PLEASE!
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CONgress needs to raise or ELIMINATE the S.S. Income CAP to PROTECT it for our children in 20 YEARS! (Original Post)
supraTruth
May 2012
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Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)1. no.
The way things are and the way they have been since the last reform of FICA taxes, rather than preserving SS congress would simply further cut taxes on the rich using the newly engorged surpluses to hide the resulting deficit.
supraTruth
(496 posts)3. NEVER forget that OUR VOTES DO MATTER.
Help make our voices heard.
patrice
(47,992 posts)2. I wish I knew enough to figure out how raising the bottom of the top-brackets & ELIMINATING the cap
would work out, on the grounds that a little incentive could help this solution politically.
supraTruth
(496 posts)4. EGGZACTLY!