Another excellent article. In this case, it's my opinion that most Americans do not realize that this is a real problem - for their kids and grandkids. Why not .... it's because of a faulty education system that focuses on identity groups and a calculated diversity rather than learning about the world, our nation, and individual responsibility.
Who opposes an increase in incomes subject to S.S. tax? That's the most painless solution, taxing higher incomes progressively, as in our federal income tax.
Doesn't this problem just highlight the importance of fixing our immigration system? The fact that people want to come here should be our biggest advantage to solving this issue. Yet, while Rome burns our politicians fiddle....
Hal, riddle me this. You have a column here about declining birth rate. You didn’t mention illegal immigrants to the extent that some of them, and all of them should, pay taxes. They are here and earning. The cap should be lifted immediately. That would be considered a tax increase but at 175 K they shouldn’t mind. They will but they shouldn’t.
I have, in my little circles, raised the point that when we started to allow, even in some cases, encourage,out sourcing jobs. How did that affect social security collections. When a worker was earning $20 or $25 dollars an hour lost that job to outsourcing how did that affect the amount of social security payments from the employee and the employer. Negatively I assume. If that same worker was forced to take work at say $10 dollars an hour his or her social security contribution was lowered by a great deal. Maybe a corporate tax could be levied to make up at least part of this shortfall. After all they enjoyed enormous profits by outsourcing at the expense of the worker and the system.
There has always been people who hate anything that benefits the common worker in this country. The free market works for some and even better for a few but the average worker will need a program like social security because on their own they will never save much if any for retirement security and heaven forbid the average worker from becoming disabled which as everyone knows our social security takes care of as well as of age retirement.
This is a true and well written as usual article, but I think it is lacking in offering up more than just birth rate affecting our social system and ways it could be fixed other than anyone receiving anything less than full benefit payment in coming years.
Another excellent article. In this case, it's my opinion that most Americans do not realize that this is a real problem - for their kids and grandkids. Why not .... it's because of a faulty education system that focuses on identity groups and a calculated diversity rather than learning about the world, our nation, and individual responsibility.
Who opposes an increase in incomes subject to S.S. tax? That's the most painless solution, taxing higher incomes progressively, as in our federal income tax.
Doesn't this problem just highlight the importance of fixing our immigration system? The fact that people want to come here should be our biggest advantage to solving this issue. Yet, while Rome burns our politicians fiddle....
Points all well taken, and good subject matter for a future column.
Hal, riddle me this. You have a column here about declining birth rate. You didn’t mention illegal immigrants to the extent that some of them, and all of them should, pay taxes. They are here and earning. The cap should be lifted immediately. That would be considered a tax increase but at 175 K they shouldn’t mind. They will but they shouldn’t.
I have, in my little circles, raised the point that when we started to allow, even in some cases, encourage,out sourcing jobs. How did that affect social security collections. When a worker was earning $20 or $25 dollars an hour lost that job to outsourcing how did that affect the amount of social security payments from the employee and the employer. Negatively I assume. If that same worker was forced to take work at say $10 dollars an hour his or her social security contribution was lowered by a great deal. Maybe a corporate tax could be levied to make up at least part of this shortfall. After all they enjoyed enormous profits by outsourcing at the expense of the worker and the system.
There has always been people who hate anything that benefits the common worker in this country. The free market works for some and even better for a few but the average worker will need a program like social security because on their own they will never save much if any for retirement security and heaven forbid the average worker from becoming disabled which as everyone knows our social security takes care of as well as of age retirement.
This is a true and well written as usual article, but I think it is lacking in offering up more than just birth rate affecting our social system and ways it could be fixed other than anyone receiving anything less than full benefit payment in coming years.