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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: stsimon who wrote (213782)1/3/2013 12:50:58 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (2) of 541695
 
With all due respect, I don't agree with any of that. That column was written, by and for, the business community which is getting the lions share of the benefits now. The plutocrat's.

Leave social security alone. Lift the cap and it is good for 75 years.

Two things:

1) First let me see some discussion about cutting defense! When do you ever see that from the business community, or RW?

2) The author talks about how taking the cap off would make it ridiculously large for the rich, so they suggest $215,000. How about a million or even a total lifting of the cap. Billionaires can afford it and this is for the welfare of our society. How can a 6% tax on billionaires be ridiculously large when it is for the welfare of our society?

We do not need to make things harder on the poor as a first solution, and 50% of all retirees depend totally on social security. That should be a last resort, not a first resort.

We can look at things like social security when we see the rich "struggling" like the poor are.

And we are not 65th in the world in income inequality. Raising the SS cap would help bring that back in line.

<<Here are some modest changes to Social Security that could be part of strengthening the program for the future:

http://business.time.com/2013/01/02/why-the-fiscal-cliff-deal-should-have-included-social-security/
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