Count up to five years of elder or child care as time worked at the previous wage for the purpose of calculating benefits!

http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2012/ted_20120302.htm

The CPI-E is an alternative way of calculating inflation that reflects actual spending patterns by elderly Americans. In general, they spend less on food and transportation, and more on housing and medical care, than younger Americans; the CPI-E reflects that and results in higher CPI increases, particularly when health care and housing prices go up.

In the past 30 years, the CPI-E has risen 3.2% per year on average whereas the ordinary CPI-U has only risen 2.9% per year on average. This means that $100 in 1985 adjusted by the CPI-U to today would be $236, while adjusted by the CPI-E it would be $257 -- a full 8% higher.

are counting 5 years of child/elder care credit and changing to CPI-E as a better means to track cost of living increases. That makes so much sense because the costs are so different for elders with the # of meds they take, etc.

O'Malley isn't just giving us the standard talking points that every Dem says when they run for office. He is putting out thoughtful, progressive policy.

So, damn proud to be a supporter of his.

Your summary includes:

The current cap (for 2015) is $118,500, according to this SSA fact sheet. Some people have proposed removing the cap altogether. Others have argued that this would create hardship, especially for those at the lower range of affected workers. (Somebody making $120,000 a year may not seem deserving of much sympathy to those of us far lower on the income scale, but a lot of them have high mortgage payments and other such expenses and would feel a pinch.)

O'Malley is embracing a common compromise proposal of creating a "doughnut hole" in taxable earnings. Everyone would pay FICA tax on the first $118,500 of earnings (with this cap amount presumably continuing to go up year by year, pursuant to the CPI, as under current law). Remaining earnings up to $250,000 would be exempt. Any earnings over $250,000 would again be subject to the FICA tax.

I'm sure that's what he means by saying, per your link, "Governor O’Malley supports lifting the cap on the payroll tax for workers earning more than $250,000."

Damn the donut hole, but thanks