• BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    No, it isn’t. That’s bullshit, a talking point designed to get you to give up on supporting it politically.

    But do you know what would help it in actuarial terms? 2 things:

    • raise the federal minimum wage

    • remove the cap on income subject to the social security tax

    When suppressing wages became a bipartisan affair, it hurt Social Security just as much as it did workers on the low end of the wage scale.

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      11 months ago

      Also make the SS fund separate from the general fund and make the general fund (aka the military) pay back what they took from SS originally.