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peacebird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:36 PM Original message |
Let's push for doing away with the "glass ceiling" on FICA tax. Everyone should pay on 100% |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:38 PM Response to Original message |
1. Duh. Of course that should be done. And Congress should pass START and end the WARS. |
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peacebird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:40 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. may I assume you will be calling congress to tell them? |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:51 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. I have. And I've written. I call again tomorrow. nt |
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peacebird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:58 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. : ) good, me too. Thanks! |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
2. Might be a good idea but you won't be in the room. |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
3. Know your acronyms. SSI = Supplemental Security Income and is not Social Security |
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peacebird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:45 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. my bad! thanks - fixed for FICA.... oh and the glass celiing is 106,800... |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
5. disagree. its social security.. i.e. the minimum safety net |
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peacebird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 08:49 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Simpson Bowles and others have called for severe cutbacks in service and raising retirement age |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 09:02 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. because both you and bill gates are capped out to the same maximum benefit. |
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peacebird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 09:09 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. so I should have to pay on 100% of my income and Bill Gates only on less than 10% of his? |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 09:27 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. not a scrooge. you just dont understand the purpose of SS. |
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badtoworse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:59 AM Response to Reply #12 |
24. ddeclue has it exactly right - Social Security is not welfare |
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Gaedel (802 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 09:05 AM Response to Reply #12 |
25. Bill Gates probably has no "income" |
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 09:29 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. you and i get this. i think that is about it. |
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peacebird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 09:37 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. "make it a handout" ? How? By making everyone pay FICA on 100% of their salary? That is a "handout"? |
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 09:46 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. everybody pays an equal amount now- the max. |
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peacebird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 09:57 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. the repukes already want to take it down, and Simpson Bowles want to gut it |
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 10:12 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. my father never made it to retirement, but |
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PBS Poll-435 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
11. Don't EVER use the phrase "glass ceiling" unless you are taliking about equal pay for equal work |
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peacebird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 09:11 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. as a 53 y.o. woman who has never earned what my fellow male engineers earned, i understand |
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PBS Poll-435 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 09:21 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Worst part is.. |
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peacebird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 09:23 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. no worries, my friend! I understand. |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-08-10 10:18 PM Response to Original message |
22. Look at the name. Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) tax. |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-09-10 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
23. I've been saying that for MANY long years. I pay it on all of my income. |
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