2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSocial Security. NO other candidate is addressing this (OTHER than by advocating cuts) except BERNIE
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Hillary's position of restarting FICA on wages of $250,000. Hillary came on board with this position, Sanders changed his position.
hill2016
(1,772 posts)that this is factually wrong (As in him numbers don't add up)?
Nobody else no even Trump is peddling such nonsense.
dgauss
(882 posts)hill2016
(1,772 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)the main reason simply raising the cap does not solve the SS funding issue. It does help, but doesn't solve it. Sounds good, but it's just more talk.
Probably biggest problem is that increase FICA tax has also been tapped by Sanders to pay for healthcare, education, infrastructure, welfare, etc. Those are all things we need to do, but he's not offering the way to do it, not to mention Congress will laugh at him if he somehow were elected President.
Robbins
(5,066 posts)most voters don't seem to care.even dems since they are poised to nominate clinton.
Clinton has already ruled out raising the cap.which was predicable since top 1% are her donors.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Hillary understands that there is no way to accomplish that goal without asking the highest-income Americans to pay more, including options to tax some of their income above the current Social Security cap, and taxing some of their income not currently taken into account by the Social Security system.
This is verbatim from her position on SS.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Robbins
(5,066 posts)no to any new taxes.
She is candiate of top 1% you think she will raise any new taxes on them.and how do you think she will pay for more war.cut from social safety net which includes ss and SSI.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)has been living on since 2001. Look at the payouts by State State and ZIP and see how your community is benefiting.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/oasdi_zip/2014/index.html
That money goes into the community and is recycled.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)No increases for those in the $110k to $250k income range; a donut hole.