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Aye, but would you vote for an immediate increase of SSN tax to 10%?
Forget the pipe dream of people investing their own way to retirement. Doesn't happen on 20k-40k a year.
I could see removing the cap and taxing the whole paycheck, but that's the bilge pump type fix not a solution.
How about doubling Medicare tax to a hefty 6+ %?
No, the pipe dream is to have politicians 'fix' the system by some other means like reducing costs or the fee schedule.
I see what medicare pays for services as the Tricare system pays on the medicare schedule. 15 bucks does NOT pay for an x-ray (for example) no way a hospital can work on that schedule.
The fix is not to cut services or reduce cost - no government run social program has ever successfully done that outside of Regan's welfare reform.
The fix is raising taxes, equally across the board. I'm strongly opposed to graduated taxes, it means there is no equal ownership.
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