But… If there cap is 184k, when you retire and get your SSI check, you won’t get more than the next person if you made 1m vs their 184k.
I think the point is the wealthy people are less likely to be reliant of SSI in retirement. So they don’t want to pay into it any more than they have to. If they paid more, they’d end up getting more, so while temporarily it’d be funded better sooner, SS would just pay more out later and still be broken.
And so what? If I pay taxes and never use WIC, is that wrong in some way?
Social Security also funds SSI disability, most of us won’t use that but we pay for it. That’s how taxes work.
The cap should be removed, it’s a tax not a pension plan. We can cap the benefits (higher than it is now) without capping the deduction. Anyone making $1M/year is still going to net hundreds of thousands more than someone making $200K. And both of them will be fine.
If you are reforming SS to raise the cap, why wouldn’t you also reform the payment end as well? There is no reason that the wealthy should get enormous SS payments they don’t need, and allow that to cripple SS for those who do need it.
I can hear the parasites now: “It isn’t fair! The poors get all the breaks!”
But… If there cap is 184k, when you retire and get your SSI check, you won’t get more than the next person if you made 1m vs their 184k.
I think the point is the wealthy people are less likely to be reliant of SSI in retirement. So they don’t want to pay into it any more than they have to. If they paid more, they’d end up getting more, so while temporarily it’d be funded better sooner, SS would just pay more out later and still be broken.
And so what? If I pay taxes and never use WIC, is that wrong in some way?
Social Security also funds SSI disability, most of us won’t use that but we pay for it. That’s how taxes work.
The cap should be removed, it’s a tax not a pension plan. We can cap the benefits (higher than it is now) without capping the deduction. Anyone making $1M/year is still going to net hundreds of thousands more than someone making $200K. And both of them will be fine.
If you are reforming SS to raise the cap, why wouldn’t you also reform the payment end as well? There is no reason that the wealthy should get enormous SS payments they don’t need, and allow that to cripple SS for those who do need it.
I can hear the parasites now: “It isn’t fair! The poors get all the breaks!”
I was asking a serious question, not defending the wealthy.