{"id":2440,"date":"2010-08-03T01:51:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T08:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2010-08-03T01:51:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T08:51:11","slug":"easy-fix-for-social-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/03\/easy-fix-for-social-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Fix for Social Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the cat food commission ponders how to cut the benefits we eared through years of contributions, there remains one sure4 fix for social security.<\/font><\/p>\n

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If you believe Social Security is broken, <\/span>here’s proof<\/a> that it’s easy to fix:<\/span><\/p>\n

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    CBO analysis <\/span>shows<\/span><\/a> that if all income were subject to the Social Security tax<\/strong> (as opposed to just the first $106,800), Social Security’s trust fund would last through 2083. Given the imprecision of 75-year economic forecasts, that should be good enough for now.<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    A poll conducted for <\/span>USA Today<\/span> by Gallup <\/span>shows<\/span><\/a> that 67% of Americans support lifting the cap on income<\/strong> subject to the Social Security tax.<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Problem solved. In fact, it was so easy to solve, it’s really not much of a problem\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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    You\u2019ve heard this solution from me many times before.  We need to keep repeating this until it takes root.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    While the cat food commission ponders how to cut the benefits we eared through years of contributions, there remains one sure4 fix for social security. If you believe Social Security is broken, here’s proof that it’s easy to fix: CBO analysis shows that if all income were subject to the Social Security tax (as opposed […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}