Social Security payroll taxes stop applying once a worker's wages pass an annual cap. Below that line every dollar is taxed; above it, nothing is. A nurse, a welder, and a line cook pay in on all of their earnings. Someone paid several times that stops paying partway through the year and takes the rest home untaxed, and still collects a benefit at the end of it. Meanwhile the trust fund is projected to fall short as the ratio of workers to retirees keeps dropping, and the fixes being floated are raising the retirement age or trimming benefits — both of which land hardest on the people whose bodies are worn out from forty years of physical work and who will collect for the fewest years. There is a simpler answer that asks nothing of them. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to eliminate the Social Security payroll tax cap so that all wage income pays in at the same rate, and to rule out benefit cuts and a higher retirement age as the alternative.
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Social Security payroll taxes stop applying once a worker's wages pass an annual cap. Below that line every dollar is taxed; above it, nothing is. A nurse, a welder, and a line cook pay in on all of their earnings. Someone paid several times that stops paying partway through the year and takes the rest home untaxed, and still collects a benefit at the end of it. Meanwhile the trust fund is projected to fall short as the ratio of workers to retirees keeps dropping, and the fixes being floated are raising the retirement age or trimming benefits — both of which land hardest on the people whose bodies are worn out from forty years of physical work and who will collect for the fewest years. There is a simpler answer that asks nothing of them. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to eliminate the Social Security payroll tax cap so that all wage income pays in at the same rate, and to rule out benefit cuts and a higher retirement age as the alternative.
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