US Politics on Yik Yak | Can it be true? Lifting the income cap to apply the “full 12.4 percent payroll tax rate to all earnings” only pushes social security insolvency from 2033 to 2037?!

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Can it be true? Lifting the income cap to apply the “full 12.4 percent payroll tax rate to all earnings” only pushes social security insolvency from 2033 to 2037?!

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Lifting the income cap to apply the “full 12.4 percent payroll tax rate to all earnings” only pushes social security insolvency from 2033 to 2037?!"

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Anonymous 13h

Correct, it’s not a super long term solution, you’d have to fund it via other methods such as increasing the income tax or decreasing benefits or using some other dividend However 4 years is definitely worth doing? It also strictly does not hurt low income people to do that so

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