• zbyte64@awful.systems
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    15 days ago

    If we just uncapped social security contributions this wouldn’t be an issue. This is a manufactured crisis to convince people that socialism doesn’t work and we should go back to barbarism.

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      15 days ago

      Exactly. SS is the easiest problem in DC to solve.

      They don’t have to remove the cap, just raise it. Right now, it’s around $167K. Just raise it to $250K, or $500K, or $1 million. That would make it solvent again for decades.