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ProudMNDemocrat

(20,901 posts)
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 11:37 AM Dec 2025

All Congress has to do is remove the Earned Income Gross cap and SS and Medicare is solvent.

Gross Income should be subjected to FICA taxes for those grossing $5 million or more annually than to those grossing $50,000 annually. That means the very wealthy pay into the systems at the same percentage rate as a Middle Class worker.

Bur Republicans are OPPOSED to that as well. Which is why we need Democrats in the majority in both Houses.

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