If you’ve watched TV or picked up your phone in the last few weeks, you’ve probably seen at least 100 political ads. Social Security isn’t getting as much press as other topics, but it’s still a big concern for seniors, especially after the 2025 COLA came in at just 2.5%.
Donald Trump has recently tried to win support from older voters by promising to eliminate the tax on Social Security benefits that some retirees pay on up to 85% of their checks. It makes for a good sound bite, but the repercussions of that move are complicated.
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All good news in the short term
If you’re not familiar, Social Security benefit taxes force seniors to give the IRS a piece of their benefit checks if their provisional income — that is, their adjusted gross income (AGI), plus any nontaxable interest they’ve earned on their investments, and half their annual Social Security benefit — exceeds certain levels for their marital status:
| Marital Status | 0% of Benefits Taxable if Provisional Income Is Under: | Up to 50% of Benefits Taxable if Provisional Income Is Between: | Up to 85% of Benefits Taxable if Provisional Income Exceeds: |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single | $25,000 | $25,000 and $34,000 | $34,000 |
| Married | $32,000 | $32,000 and $44,000 | $44,000 |
Source: Social Security Administration.
To be clear, this doesn’t mean you lose 50% or 85% of your benefits if you fall into one of the taxable ranges. That just indicates the percentage of your benefits you’ll pay ordinary income tax on. For example, if you fall in the 50% taxable benefit range above and are in the 12% income tax bracket, you could pay 12% tax on up to 50% of your Social Security benefits.
That said, these taxes can still take a significant bite out of retirees’ checks. The latest Trustees Report revealed that the government took in $50.7 billion from taxing Social Security benefits in 2023, and that number will likely be even higher this year. That’s especially difficult for those who rely primarily or exclusively on Social Security.
Donald Trump’s plan to eliminate this benefit tax would be a boon to retirees in the short term. This would give many families more money they could use to cover their immediate expenses. It would also let them withdraw less from their personal savings, possibly extending the life of their nest egg. But these benefits would be short-lived.
Social Security’s long-term problem
Social Security is already in a serious funding crisis. A recent Congressional Budget Office report indicates that benefit cuts of 24% would be necessary beginning in 2034 if the government does not take steps to secure additional funding for Social Security before then.
Removing Social Security benefit taxes — one of the program’s three sources of funding, the others being interest on trust fund investments and Social Security payroll taxes — would exacerbate this shortfall. It would increase deficits by $200 billion between now and 2035, according to a recent Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) report. This would accelerate the rate of the trust fund shortfall by over one year.
It’s not impossible to fund the program without taxing seniors’ Social Security benefits. Theoretically, the government could do this by shifting the burden to workers. The Congressional Budget Office report indicates that if Social Security benefits remain taxable at their current rates, Social Security payroll taxes would have to climb from 12.4% to 16.7% to make up for the shortfall.
If you eliminate benefit taxes, you’d have to increase Social Security payroll taxes by another 0.90%, according to the CRFB, bringing them to 17.6%. This would cost the average worker earning $60,000 per year $5,280 in taxes. That’s understandably not going to be a popular decision.
The reason Social Security’s funding crisis hasn’t been resolved yet is that there are no popular decisions — not ones that could fully resolve the issue at least. Kamala Harris’s proposal to require high earners to pay more in Social Security payroll taxes could partially resolve the issue. But it would only eliminate about half of the projected shortfall. The hard truth is that eliminating the shortfall will cost voters, and politicians aren’t eager to decide who or how much.
Promises aren’t guarantees
Another factor to consider here is that just because Donald Trump says he’ll eliminate Social Security benefit taxes doesn’t mean it’ll actually happen. As president, he wouldn’t have the authority to decide that on his own. Congress would have to pass a law eliminating the tax, so a lot more people would have to get on board for it to happen.
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What is the danger if Harris gets in and gives Social Security to all the illegals they let flood into the country?
She is not giving social security to illegals (nor are the eligible even though they pay IN)
Millions of illegals do receive health care, and welfare benefits that we pay for! Some receive, free college, and housing benefits! Courtesy, of Biden Harris, and liberal Governors in blue states
Illegals …. ILLEGALS … contribute up to $3 trillion to the GDP and they pay a lot of tax, including for SS which they do not get back. If they get sick it is to everyone’s benefit if they get healthcare.
Get lost with those fantasy numbers. Get out. Get in line. Do it the legal way like my family has done three different times. Months and months of paperwork, jumping through hoops and paying lots of money. It will get you here legally and the money paid at least will not go to the drug cartels.
Really? Is it to everyone’s benefit if they get healthcare? Really? Explain, please. My daughter and grandkids can’t even afford to get medical. My daughter can’t even get a job to live outside my household with her three kids. I have an adopted grandson who works part-time (cannot get full-time employment) who also lives with us. He only has partial medical through his employer because he is part-time. I thank God that they are living under our roof, but really wish they all had access to the “health benefits” you claim the ILLEGAL ALIENS have. And by the way, no, they do not contribute $3 trillion to the GDP, nor do they pay taxes (including social security). They may get $3 trillion in benefits from the last administration, but they are not contributors.
Maybe at the local level, so write to your mayor about it. Illegals are ineligible for federal benefits.
(Emergency rooms are different.)
In that case our government, under Biden, was giving illegal handouts to noncitizens. Don’t believe it? Get off of your current social justice media and see what’s really happening in this country!
don’t drink the Kool-Aid
Unfortunately, math seems to be missing in the equation. The Government as a whole has no money. They have been writing “hot checks for years”. Illegals exacerbate the spending in (2) ways. Eleven million plus illegals receive government funding which adds to the deficit which directly impacts the government’s ability to write checks., and they are receiving monthly benefits of about $3,000 per family which are driving up inflation. Yes, when these folks place pressure on housing for a place to live, rent and home cost go up. When they buy groceries in your store they deplete shelves putting pressure on the supply with added demand prices go up. It is simple economics and math. Yes, illegal immigrants directly impact both Social Security and are most definitely driving inflation with U.S. taxpayer money!
Please provide links to the specific programs from which people who are n the country illegally are benefitting and evidence that they are doing so.. In the meantime, enjoy your agricultural products and DoorDash deliveries as their payroll taxes go to the IRS, along with the local and state sales taxes going the their respective coffers and the stores that sell them their food and toothpaste and bicycle tires will add those profits to their bottom line so they can hire more workers.
Ummm, how do they, ahumm, how can they I should say, pay “payroll taxes to the IRS” if they’re getting paid under the table”? LOL!! C’mon!! Think about it, do you HONESTLY believe that “IL”-legals are doing it the “LEGAL” way? And who do you think is paying for THEIR crimes, their CONTINUED Healthcare, the language translation in schools and for the pushing aside of LEGAL, English- speaking, deserving (taxpayer parent student) AMERICAN students who’re getting shoved aside and treated like 2nd class citizens for these ILLEGALS who are sucking the tax-paying system dry?!?! THE LIST GOES ON AND ON for what WE The American taxpayer’s are left on the hook for paying to foot the bill because of these ILLEGAL Leeches. I’m a S. Texas Girl and have seen too much of their “wetback-ness” from the past to last me a lifetime, these last 4 years of biden-harris prison regime has been a nightmare to put it bluntly and THANK GOD!!!!, Trump was a persistent as he was and as courageous and loving and faithful to 1st America and then he Allies, because honestly I do believe that Armageddon was just around the corner raising its horns and pitchfork starting squarely at us. THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOR DONALD J. TRUMP!!! ???????? ???????? ????????
Please provide specific links that provide unbiased reporting of them helping the economy? In the meantime enjoy your criminal illegal element and suppressed wages.
all illegals need to NOT be on social security—we worked 50 yrs -5 days a week–40 hr weeks no one should be on social security except people that have worked–
They are not on Social Security. That is one of the lies being spread.
The pressure on housing is from those who can afford to buy multiple houses and sit on them – not living in them or renting them
If it’s not specifically coming from Social Security, it is still being paid by the US Treasury. Nobody is getting those living accommodations, food, medical care, cell phone, education, and stipend (up to $3000.00/ mo. per family at nocost to the taxpayer. And some of it is flat out illegal (e.g. $59m by USAID to pay for hotel roo.s in NYC).
The math is also wrong for the cost of increasing the payroll deduction. If Social Security taxes increase 0.9%, then someone earning $60,000 a year would pay $540 more a year.
You die hard conservatives are literally like talking to a brick wall. I hate Biden Harris but presidents have been allowing immigrants into this country by ANY means since it’s creation. NOT one of you asked why they are here. You believe the lies that they some how make your life worse. You don’t care the US gov. Giving BILLIONS to war with Israel & Ukraine. You simply don’t care. That where your money is going. Grow up hive mind. Read a book. Pay attention. Stop with your nonsense narrative. Fake statistics. Don’t talk about inflation coming from immigration. Even if what happened is wrong it doesn’t it’s effecting you like you infer. WAR. Follow the money. Stop being incredulous & naive.
Just the fact that your completely biased, BS comment was allowed to be on here, in spite of your name-calling and put downs for more than half of the country, proves you’re biased and don’t know anything more than what the MSM tells you to believe! I haven’t heard any conservatives say that they are for the wars, but your demented leader has been giving them money for years, despite liberals screaming in the streets! Hypocrites!
You said: “You don’t care the US gov. Giving BILLIONS to war with Israel & Ukraine. You simply don’t care. That where your money is going. Grow up hive mind. Read a book. Pay attention. Stop with your nonsense narrative. Fake statistics. Don’t talk about inflation coming from immigration. Even if what happened is wrong it doesn’t it’s effecting you like you infer. WAR. Follow the money. Stop being incredulous & naive.”
It was bribem who gave billions to Ukraine hive boi! You are a brain dead demorat. I’m sure you get the “facts” from CNN and NPR correct? Pull your head out of your backside and stop insulting others here. Grow a brainstem hive boi!
You die hard liberals are literally like talking to a brick wall. You believe the lies. You are told “Don’t believe your lying eyes” Tent cities and excrement on the sidewalks. Murders. smash and grab gangs. Tren de Aragua dope gangs and sex traffic “Free” hand outs of delivered food and “free” health care “Free” gift cards with $5,000 credit in New York. “Free” housing in luxury hotels. “free” air transportation. All paid for with our income tax dollars. The billions that went to feed the wars were championed by Biden-Harris. Trump said Enough! I will end these costly wars. Crawl out from the blanket that the Dems have thrown over your head and learn the truth. When you know the truth you will want to help us make America great again.
Immigrants. Not illegal immigration.
People illegally entering are a slap in the face to those who filed paperwork, did interviews, waited and more. Sometimes 10 years to come to America.
Donald Trump wants to increase immigration. Legal immigration.
You left out how each wave of Undocumented lower wages for everyone else, including all the Undocumented already here.
Supplementary S.S. benifits ARE being given to Illegals. My Grandson also works for a company that deals with devices for diabetes and works with people that atre on medicare that are not old enough.
I think you are thinking of medicaid. I don’t believe anyone under 65 can be on Medicare however I don’t believe that Medicaid has age restrictions.
People with full permanent disabilities (I am one) that cannot work (on SSI) are on Medicare. I also have a long term disability check that comes in that the company I previously worked for (before becoming fully disabled) pd into. THAT check stops in 2039 & I’ll be only receiving SSI with Medicare pulled out (like currently) befofe I ever see the money. Even with getting both checks & the COLAs, I am still vastly below the poverty line. So much so that I have to be on PAP (patient assistance programs) for almost 3/4 of my medications that I have to take to live. I cannot get on Medicaid or housing assistance because “you make too much” even though, as stated before, I am vastly below the poverty line.
IMO, the flood of illegals have skewed the “poverty line” because they’re causing it to be higher for legal citizens.
`I believe they are getting SS via fraudulent paperwork. They are definitely eating up medical and education dollars.
What you said is not true. They are getting benefits. As a matter of fact if they do not speak English, they get SSDI because it is now considered a disability to not speak English. So they would get $1,500 per month for life. But others are collecting now as well. It is on the website and they refer to them as non-citizens. It’s disgraceful.
Hey Laura… if you have no idea what you are talking about… STFU !
Really? FYI while visiting my local ss office I asked that question just out of curiosity mind you, and the kind gentleman responded….
Yes, under certain circumstances illegals do recieve ss benefits +++++++++++++!
So I was stunned
The Commie lost stfu
What is the danger of having a Russian asset in the White House?
Zero because there is and never has been a “Russian asset” in the White House. There is however a CCP China asset in the White House and a lot of money laundering going through shell companies and political entities in Ukraine and China. Who do you suppose is getting all that money paid for by U.S. taxpayers? HINT: Not the people of Ukraine. Lamestream media has been covering up these and other real crimes while screaming Russia Russia Russia and ignorant people keep parroting what they say without doing their own research.
We see the danger of having an imbecile in your home,
Oh aren’t you a good little Bolshevik….
I agree, biden accepted 1.5 million from Moscow uncontested by you, Hillary got 150 million for her fake foundation from Russian oligarchs also uncontested, and under her watch lost 20% of our uranium in a shady deal with Russia while fabricating and paying for the fake Russia dossier which was proven but again you and your traitorous ilk ignored in order to spy on a candidate for president. You shouldn’t spread lies and expect to get away with it.
Clinton isn’t there even visiting now.
This is obviously a ‘clickbait’ article with the Gateway Pundit headline “Trump’s social security plan may include doubling benefits
Illegals pay social security out of their paychecks, but by law can’t get benefits. They are subsidising you.
They are sucking the life blood out of our country. Everything is FREE to them and our own citizens and veterans go wanting.
They are subsidizing sex trafficking and opioid importers. But you don’t care, nor do thou have any empathy for the families that lost lives to them.
Illegals are here by definition, ILLEGALLY! If they WERE working, consider it the cost of living in a country that they felt was better than their country of origin. This does not exclude the fact that they will have to “go to the end of the line” and RE-ENTER the United States LEGALLY. Simple!! ????
Sorry KAREN but ILLegal immigration is not the only problem in society but yet it’s all you seem to be obsessed with. Why do cry for immigration but don’t care that you country gives Free healthcare & welfare to Ukraine & Israel!? That where the money goes WAR. But keep crying about refugees from American terrorism. Or why else are they all here?
Illegals do not collect on our SS.
Well, Harris didn’t get in, but illegals have been drawing SS benefits and there is also other fraud in SS. Let’s hope DOGE uncovers and eliminates the fraud.
if all those recipients of SS over the age of 120 (estimate by DOGE is 20 million) would NOT get any more checks THAT WOULD SAVE SOCIALM SECURITY FOR MANY MORE YEARS. There is reported a 390 year old collecting SS. Thats older than our country! !
Don’t drink the kool-aid
I see nothing about the fact that the retirment population will be declining as the boomers die off. That should be a significant factor.
But a greater percentage of the next generation will live longer due to science and medicine.
Zorikh says:
November 3, 2024 at 7:31 am
But a greater percentage of the next generation will live longer due to science and medicine.
YOU SPELLED “THE JAB” WRONG !
Not with all the hormones in meat & round up ready GMOs you’re eating. Vaccines & All the chemicals in the sky & weather modification. People are definitely not lasting longer.
Yeah, and people aren’t living longer
And the left still wants to kill millions of babies in the womb. That also is a significant factor.
They would like to kill them out of the womb too.
You people just believe anything Trump says, don’t you? If you knew anything at all about social security or anything else, you’d know that doing what you said would be quite impossible.
Yes, I believe him and what he says. When he was POTUS 45, everything he promised to do, he did, and more. Why should I believe anything Biden or Harris have said? One of them lied his way to the top, the other laid her way to the top, and both of them failed up!
LOL “You people”? No we don’t but people like you believe everything lamestream media tells you and then parrot it like it’s gospel before you do any research for yourself. This article is a bit misleading and is really intended to sell something. Trump only ever said he was going to eliminate taxes from social security. No one knows how he gets that done but we will soon find out.
And you believe anything the Kackler says…now I understand.
This article makes a BIG assumption that SS taxes go back into SS coffers
The dems have “borrowed” so much from SS that they have completely changed its economics and used it as a piggy bank for their insane spending. Nice try!
Just wait until seniors see the rate hikes which are the largest in history in Medicare primiums Biden-Harris buried to be released January 2025 and the billions of dollars they diverted from Medicare to fund ‘new green deal’ projects
One way to increase tax revenues for Social Security is to increase the amount of earnings for which the FICA tax is collected. I think this would be better than increasing the tax rate. If you double the income cutoff point for collecting the FICA tax you would increase the tax revenue for Social Security by much more than by increasing the rates as mentioned here.
I get less that 25K and still have to pay tax on my SS I have no idea where this chart came from.
Who does your taxes?! You might want to look at alternative preparers.
Standard deduction alone is 29200 for MFJ or 14600 for singles, so you must have other income to owe any tax and I hope you do for your sake!
The government got the checkbook out PDQ over Ukraine and spent who knows how much but likely $200 billion. Meanwhile social security is being taxed in part because a major Senate proponent of the tax was….wait for it…. Joe Biden. May he roast in Hell.
Ever notice that welfare or food stamps never go broke or be threatened like social security is? If it was just for retirement we would have enough. But add on disability, supplementals and survivor benefits etc. politicians just added on promises they can’t keep. There are thousands of programs and departments the feds have that states duplicate. Just end a few alphabets departments until we get the desired affect. Unfortunately, people still look to government for EVERYTHING instead of communities locally and churches (which are only open on Sunday) would help get government out of the charity business.
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Very easy fix, privatize SS and stop all foreign aid which amounted to 66 billion dollars last year. Not even counting the money given to Ukraine. America first and American TAXPAYERS first!
Democrats cannot add or think about anything that makes them look stupid, but it is still fun reading about what those who can read look stupid to the extreme. And Democracy is NOT our form of government and never was. We were created as a Limited Constitutional Republic (limited by Bill of Natural Rights and included into law by a government not yet created by nine states accepting into actuality as the United States of America).
US social secuirity system is a political ball misused by collective class of peolple in both parties. US social security system should be indepedent organization run by seniors.
So where does it say Trump is going to double my SS payment??????
How about the government pay back the money they illegally used from SS funds?
How can Congress put in an IOU for the money they “took” from the SS trust fund when it’s our taxes paying it?
Fairy Land fables.
Benefits initially are promised as ‘legal entitlements’ after years of work, as in a savings scheme. Yet the scheme uses ‘tax today to pay for today’, thus a Ponzi scheme. So it runs out of money.
‘There is no more gold! What to do? Why – tax the benefits’.
‘Eh? What about ‘legal entitlements’?’
‘O sorry!That was an ‘actuarial fiction’ (Aneurin Bevan, UK minister). Hand over our dough. Thanks. Now, who else isn’t paying their ‘fair share? Selfish bastards!’
Most folks say SS is not an entitlement. They are correct for the most part, but not completely correct. Most of us middle class folks in our mid to late 60’s have paid somewhere between $100K and $250K into the SS system over our lives. Assuming that money could have earned at least 3 to 5% if we could have held onto it, the government owes us about 10 to 15 years worth of SS payments after we retire. We shouldn’t be taxed any of the principle of our money except for the gain it had over the years. If you are lucky enough to live beyond the exhaustion of what you paid into the system, you are now being given a monthly entitlement. At that point SS should be charging the recipient some form of remuneration. That remuneration should be added to any SS reforms that are planned.
Dude, For some reason, boredom I suppose, I have read through all these comments. Yours actually makes sense as opposed to most of the other nonsense on here. Only problem is it might be too complicated to implement on a large-scale basis. Government cannot handle simple stuff let alone keeping track of all this for millions of people.
Somebody needs remedial math classes. .9% of $60,000 is just under $600, not more than $10,000.
Two comments about SS. First, who was the person that decided it would pay benefits in advance? Who else gets paid in advance? How much extra work is generated clawing back payments made when beneficiaries die during the month after they got paid?
And why are payments bunched up during the first three days of the month and then the 2nd through 4th Wednesdays? How about paying benefits on the beneficiaries birthday? In arrears? (Leave existing beneficiaries where they are but start new retirees off on the right foot).
SS as a very easy solution. REMOVE THE CEILING. Who would it hurt? only those who now make over the ceiling. When the SS act was passed in the 30’s very people made more than the ceiling, The wealthy at that time were not opposed to paying. Now with the dramatic shift in incomes, to much higher levels those lucky enough to make this money are to stingy to pay accordingly. I guess people now are not as moral as they were in the 30’s. Remove the ceiling entirely and decrease the amount employers have to pay for each employee. Maybe 3% instead of 6+. That would help all businesses.
The real problems for SS are life expectancy increases, declining birth rates, and expanding the scope of payments. When SS started people only lived a few years past retirement age, not 20 to 30 years like today. Declining birth rates means there are fewer workers paying into SS per retiree collecting benefits today. I cannot remember the exact numbers, but the differences are huge. Expanding the scope of benefits beyond just retirees who paid into SS takes more money out of the system. SS is and always has been a huge Ponzi scheme. Ponzi schemes all end the same way – last people in get screwed. The main difference with SS is no one will go to jail.
Require Govt to pay back all money it stole (borrowed) from SS fund for their special programs.
How about we just make the first $30,000 tax free? And COLA adjust it too? This removes that convoluted 50% and 85% mess for everyone in one easy step. Why $30,000? The average Social Security payment is almost $2000 or $24,000 annually. Bumping it up to $30,000 should make this completely tax free for the lower 60% of recipients.
You said “ If you eliminate benefit taxes, you’d have to increase Social Security payroll taxes by another 0.90%, according to the CRFB, bringing them to 17.6%. This would cost the average worker earning $60,000 per year $10,560 in taxes.”
This math is correct but your statement is wrong. The worker wouldn’t pay an additional $10,570. They would only pay additional $540 per year. Or about $45 per month. Not a popular tax but manageable if the worker knew that they would never have to pay one penny of tax on their own social security.
Most people may not be aware that the money you pay to the government in the way of social security is first taxed as ordinary taxable income before you send it to the feds. Then, when you get that money later, it isn’t taxed, unless you have some other income beside SSI, which most people have. So, when some of your SS benefit is taxed it isn’t double taxation. That’s not right or fair.
17.6%-12.4=5.2% increase in SS tax X $60000 (example income)=$3120 increase in SS tax Paid on said $60000 income per year. Considering the Median US income for 2023 was $42220 shifts the perspective some and the median income for full time employees is $60,070 then your leaving out those who earn 6 digits and above that turns into $5200+ for those who earn $100,000 + or just a swag calculation of $17600 a year on said $100K income. But please please please remember to tell all us tax payers that the more you pay into SS the more you get in monthly income paint the picture with a better brush and take the time to print multiple example by wages earned and SS tax paid considering the fact that Min SS benefits start just under $1000 and the Maximum SS benefit at retirement age is $3820 and more if you delay your date to start your SS draw. The more we earn the more in return and considering how poorly many people are at saving and how many are relying on the government to save them its looking to be a good option sorry to say its become the parachute for many.
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Cutting taxes on social security is another one of Trumps benefits to the rich, that would would help them more than the poor.
The poorest pay zero income taxes on Social security retirement income. Zero. Anyone with up to about about $30,000 pays zero. Above about $70,000 in income it is almost all taxed now. In between, the tax rate is very low. So it is just like Trump’s first tax cut, way better for the rich, but increasing the deficit, of course.
Well, Retirely. You let your anti Trump bias out.
thanks for letting me know
Good Bye
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Lots of politicians state that the rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes, which to a degree is true. Many use trust funds and tax free bonds or other tax free structures to pay less tax. All legal and available to all that have the money to use them. But this isn’t about State or Federal income taxes, this article is about SS benefits and paying for them. I have a solution. Currently the limit on income that is taxed for SS in $176,100. Which means every $ earned after that is NOT TAXED for SS. It seems rather simple to me. Eliminate the the cap! Make all income subject to SS Tax. Even Capital Gains tax that the CEO’s and others paid with stock options. I have no idea how much that would bring in but I think that would go a long way toward them paying more of their fair share and greatly improve the amount going into the SS fund. But I rather doubt any of the Representatives in the House or the Senate will have the fortitude to sponsor a bill for that. Think about it, a corporate big shot making $10M a year would then pay $750,000 in SS taxes and his employer would have to match it. That’s $1.5M from just one. So of course the corporations would lobby very heavily against it. So you see there is away to continue funding the system!
JUST SAYING!
There should be NO cutoff point. Pay SS tax on every dime you make. That will not affect the wealthy’s lives.
I think a 1/2 % nationwide sales tax would make social security solvent again and spread the burden. Everyone will need social security at some point and this will have no favoritism while ensuring some type of safety net. Pensions are not taxed in the US and social security should be no different.
I think it’s important to consider how Trump’s policies could impact social security in the long run. While he has some appealing ideas, I wonder if they truly address the underlying issues. Retirees deserve clarity on what to expect!
Thank God for Donald Trump! Now we’ve got to work to get back all the billions of dollars stolen from us because of a corrupt/mismanaged Social Security system. There were 25 million people over the age of 100 collecting Social Security. Let’s get those bastards and and give them money to legitimate Social Security recipients.
Deceiving HEADLINES and NO REAL NEWS!
They could make Social Security solvent with the money that DOGE is saving the taxpayers. They just need to prevent congress from raiding the fund to pay for pet projects. Take the money from USAID oversees social give aways of taxpayer money and apply it to social security.. Problem solved.