The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security have been pushed back as an improving economy has contributed to changed projected depletion dates, according to the annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report Monday.
Still, officials warn that policy changes are needed lest the programs become unable to pay full benefits to retiring Americans.
At the very least they could take the damn cap off it.
https://money.usnews.com/money/retirement/social-security/articles/what-is-the-social-security-tax-limit
Right now it’s almost like the opposite of your suggestion.
Hah, yeah. Honestly, fuck it, yeah, take the cap off. I’m still getting fucked, but at least the generation before me and my less fortunate peers would be less fucked.
And maybe my idea was wrong-headed… if they took the cap off, and I ended up paying more as I got paid more, it would still be better because at leat it would be around when I was old.
I don’t remember the payouts being super awesome though. Ugh, I don’t know. I think I’m fucked either way.
The cap is $168,600.
You’re not a rich individual on a bad day. You’re working two jobs. You’re fucking poor, just like almost all the rest of us.
Class is what we’ve all in common.