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2017-02-26 Economy

Social Security Administration Ups Earning Cap for 2017 to $127,200.

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-26 05:48|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Take more on the front-end, pay less on the back-end. Sorry, you missed the ceiling again this year. Receiving maximum benefits requires full payment. The algorithmics of a ponzi scheme.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-26 06:03|| 2017-02-26 06:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Galveston--not the Glen Campbell version but the SS version.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-02-26 07:57|| 2017-02-26 07:57|| Front Page Top

#3 tax rate is 7.65% for employee; 15.3% for self employed

so max SS is ~ $9,730 and $19,460 respectively

Posted by lord garth 2017-02-26 08:12|| 2017-02-26 08:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Some of you may be wondering what this article is doing in the War on Terror section. But when the government steals money from every paycheck you ever earn with vague promises of maybe someday, if you're nice, they might give some of it back to you, that's terror.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-02-26 11:19|| 2017-02-26 11:19|| Front Page Top

#5 ...well, not quite terror (yet) but the yahoos who have no history forget, this country started on a tax revolt. Distant London had the same view of Deep State of who serves who.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-02-26 12:36|| 2017-02-26 12:36|| Front Page Top

#6 OK, so the mods moved it to Non-WOT. I still stand by my earlier comment.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-02-26 14:19|| 2017-02-26 14:19|| Front Page Top

#7 I file my papers this year.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-02-26 16:24|| 2017-02-26 16:24|| Front Page Top

#8 I still stand by my earlier comment.

To paraphrase Daniel patrick Moynihan, we're apparently defining terror downward.

Posted by Pappy 2017-02-26 19:00|| 2017-02-26 19:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Remove the earning cap altogether. Mandate SS withdrawals on stock option proceeds. The rate should drop way, way down.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-02-26 21:09|| 2017-02-26 21:09|| Front Page Top

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