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customerserviceguy

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21. You'd also have to change the payout formula
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 07:23 PM
Aug 2012

Right now, there are three tiers of payout, which favor the most lowly paid. It might be good to create at least a couple more tiers, so that added taxes do not deplete the fund through payouts to people who really don't need them all that badly.

As for the employer's share, there's absolutely no reason that the sky shouldn't be the limit, without affecting the worker's benefits. If a bailed-out megabank wants to pay it's CEO ten million dollars a year to run the damned thing into the ground, then they should pay the employer's percentage of taxes on all ten million.

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"The government gave you free money and getting free money is popular." KansDem Aug 2012 #1
Leave it to the right-wing AEI to come up with that nonsense PSPS Aug 2012 #4
"according to an analysis by The Associated Press" PSPS Aug 2012 #2
The only thing that kept Social Security afloat for so long customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #3
Sorry, you're wrong PSPS Aug 2012 #6
Every time I talk about SS here customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #7
SS is only in trouble if we allow your framing to stand. Bernie Sanders says: SalviaBlue Aug 2012 #8
You should stick to customer service. girl gone mad Aug 2012 #13
And a mortgage on an underwater house customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #14
Sorry, you're still wrong. PSPS Aug 2012 #16
How do you propose that the trust fund's customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #17
As it stands now, those securities are redeemed for cash. Selatius Aug 2012 #19
Monetized = printing press customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #20
If they hadn't robbed the SS funds, it would be in better shape today. begin_within Aug 2012 #5
just think of how much better off we would be onethatcares Aug 2012 #9
I lost a lot of money in my 401K and my IRA. RebelOne Aug 2012 #11
"Monthly benefits average $1,235 for retired workers and $1,111 for disabled workers,,,,". RebelOne Aug 2012 #10
It's an average SickOfTheOnePct Aug 2012 #12
Tax the rich. Raise the cap on Social Security from $110,000 to infinity. Zorra Aug 2012 #15
You'd also have to change the payout formula customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #21
Walmart cashiers and burger flippers don't contribute very much into FICA NNN0LHI Aug 2012 #18
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