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Longer term fix: Employ more people at the lower end of the wage scale and pay them more.

Quick fix: Increase the MaxTax. Currently, only the first $184k of *wage* income is dinged for SocSec. Employees earning that income pay about $11k into SocSec. But Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc. also pay only $11k. There's a fuckload of "room" to raise that threshold & increase funding.

It's simple logic really. Trump fucks with social security and it's death to him and his circus he calls an administration. Probably a beating by walkers and canes..........there's close to 85 million of us.

No fuk'n kidding. All the money went to the 0.001%. Maybe it's time to take it back. They bribed politicians to get it, so it's yours for the taking. Be careful, they don't like giving up the proceeds of their crime... and they own the police and military, and have private armies.

Because fixing it involves unpopular solutions and Congress only addresses something when its in crisis mode. Pretty pathetic.

Oh, is Forbes still owned by pedophiles just asking for a friend.

Your elderly will be homeless and starving. And America doesn't care.

Republicans want SS to fail.

F Forbes. Wait, I take that back, they don't deserve such pleasure.

Sorry to break the news, most people don't like golden showers, we don't like being pissed on by people using us a pawns!

Shocking- Forbes still rolling out the "cliff" lie. Pay your fair share you rich assholes!

A few dozen billionaires pay their fair share instead of zero every year- and it's fixed.

The Social Security funding class is essentially temporary due to a large generation going into retirement. It's an easy fix. So aren't the confusing rules etc. Republicans don't want to fix it. A program globally recognized for keeping seniors from abject poverty and they want to kill that program

Have no fear Forbes, that 50-year amassing of obscene wealth hoards will fix things. Make Billionaires Millionaires Again

Raise the cap. Maybe just remove the cap.

The fix is even simpler than making a law itself.

Everyone knows it's not that hard - just raise the cap on FICA taxable income.

Right? You’d think it was rocket science.

It'll be there if you want it to be. Speak up. They said the same thing when I was young. Dump Trump and his rich cronies. They don't care about you.

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With so many people paying into this fund their entire life and then dying either right before collecting anything or shortly after starting to collect you have to wonder where all of their money goes. Yes, and remove the cap!

Imagine Social Security as a person. The Republican Party has been shooting this person for 40+ years and saying, “Look, they’re dying.” If you want Social Security to survive, and the vast majority of us do, vote blue!

Remove the cap. Problem solved.

The problem could be solved overnight by lifting the lid, or at least increasing it past the meager change made recently.

Tax the rich

It would not be legal for that money to go anywhere but right on back to the individuals who paid ibto that system. Anything else is theft on the highest order.

Republicans got a death wish. And they just might get it.

... you have no idea how the SS trust fund works, do you?

Ronald Fuckin Reagan

The US has always paid it's debts. The SS trust fund, having paid current benefits from contributions, must invest any surplus in US Treasuries, deemed the safest investment, by law. If the fund needs cash, it redeems some treasuries, just like anyone else in the World holding US securities.

Raise the income cap on contributions. We are letting the rich take a bigger, bigger chunks, and contribute less and less. The needs of the people are known, measured, and pretty modest in the big picture. The greed of the rich so endless "line go up" no matter how rich they are.

Stop it, there is no cliff. News people are lying. Just make folks pay their fair share.

How about that $2.8 trillion Congress has borrowed from the SST with no intention of paying it back?

Tax the rich.

EVERYTHING Trump touches, dies. He will continue to steal money from all programs to grift and to increase war machine spending. Madness.

The Old Criminal now in the White House has probably siphoned off most of the money from Social Security for that damned idiot ballroom.

Raise the cutoff to $400K and this is no longer a problem.

The rich better be very careful. Those bunkers, only hold so much food, and water. They'll have to come out eventually.

Will no one think of the billionaires?

Raise the cap. AND get rid of the wasteful spending on "the BALLROOM" the *gifted* JET, the planned TRUMP ARCH, painting the GRANITE Eisenhower building.... In other words, raise the cap and 8647

Happens when Congress sees Social Security as pot of gold to be stolen from whenever they want and won't put back what they have taken....they have had DECADES to plan for boomer aged care and did ZERO! So save us the wringing of hands and the lies...FIX this even if you have to tax the billionaires

"Of course they will not let anything terrible happen." UM.... of course they will let it all go away.

Media hysteria over SS is a distraction from implementation of Project 2025 and their lack of transparency & investigation of that and the Epstein files. Tax the capital gains when used as collateral. Done. Next.

Paywall.

No we are not.

fund it with the funds for the ballroom instead

If they cut Social Security, I plan to start stealing from rich republicans.

It won't last that long under trump because he'll just kill the elderly and disabled.

Lmao I have heard that from Americans for 50 years, you still vote to make the rich richer! That will never change because 95% of Americans are delusional, you will never be rich or just ok if you keep voting for Republicans. Look at Republicans states and the poverty they have!

The 4th estate is almost entirely owned by billionaires who use exclusively to represent their own interests - more money and more power. America’s political, economic, media and social systems are completely broken and need to be rebuilt from the ground up, and/or replaced.

Spot-on!

Forbes out here trying to get rid of Social security, they are the fracking worst propagandist ever

As someone who waited until 70 to collect my earned Social Security entitlement (on the advice of the Social Security Administration I might add), I'll likely have my Social Security cut. I would have been better off starting to collect at age 62 - the government never keeps its legal mandates...

Genx is gonna get rug pulled.

Let me guess the thesis before reading the article. Privatization is the only solution!

How much for this skirmish in Iran?

If the government didn’t dip into the fund to borrow and not repay; if they raised the income cap to $250,000; if billionaires paid their fair share of taxes; if corporations didn’t get so many loopholes…this wouldn’t be a problem. But middle and lower class salaries bear the brunt of it all.

Stop manufacturing consent for your rich investors, and pay your goddamn taxes, Forbes. There, problem solved.

Tons of people don't even know about the cap. Don't say "raise the cap" without explaining "Raise the cap on income subject to Social Security (FICA) tax, currently $184,000. Raising or eliminating the cap can help save Social Security."

Remove the cap

I hit the cap all the time and it rather pisses me off. I should continue to pay to support others less fortunate!

Yep. It's one of the biggest pots of money left. They'd like to raid it.

Remove it entirely.

No!!!!

And the AutoCorrect is making me look illiterate again

I’ll do you one better, remove the cap. Most working Americans would never notice because their income doesn’t hit the cap anyway.

And a minimum for employees (executives) that refuse salary and companies. Make it high enough that they take a salary

How about we stop funding ballrooms and personal vanity projects, unessary wars, spending hundreds of millions on golf weekends, and requesting billions for illegal city occupations. Those funds could surely shore up the program.

Couldn't be that little problem where those making 200K and above pay the same maximum SS tax as someone earning 100+K, could it? How has THAT not been changed in all these years? Then, again, the Feds also have their minimum wage the same low number it's been since 2009...

Because this repug congress would never vote to take something away that we paid for.

But, let's build a Ballroom, an Arch and start Wars of Choice.

Tip the hat.

I dare Republicans to vote to gut Social Security. That'll be the quickest path to a Democratic super majority.

Get ready to pay ...

republican BULLSHIT LIES they just want to to steal YOUR FUNDS, that YOU PAID IN

That is it. Notice congress never worry about their pensions/retirement is never at risk for not being fully funded. Isn't that weird?

And here is the major reason

Someone better have a lawsuit ready to go. Those Republican assholes are going to burn through MY money. Fuckers.

I'm 60 and will be retiring in a few years. I've been paying SS since I was 12 with my paper route. If I get screwed out if my money, there will be hell to pay! I'm sure I'm not alone here!

Social security can never go insolvent. Unless congress allows it to.

Tax Elon and it's fixed.

Oh, they’ll get their grubby little mitts on Social Security, too. Banks have been salivating over that prize ever since it was introduced.Steal it all and watch elderly folks die in the street like they disdain all impoverished and homeless people without losing any sleep over it. Unless we stop it

Ever Notice That The Rags That Cater To The Upper Class, All Are Constantly Putting Out Doom And Gloom Articles About Social Security And That Several Other Sources Put Out Articles That Say Social Security Is Going To Be Just Fine?...Why Do You Suppose That Is?...

Vote every single Republican out. Their party needs to end.

If we all got together and had a good peasant "Pitchfork and torch" day then shit would get balanced out real quick.

If we properly took the money the billionaires have been hoarding by buying all our politicians, we would have plenty to fund social security, healthcare, education, trains, roads, and still have some left for the Military Industrial Complex. Maybe we should go get our money from those crooks.

Well, we tried to do it peacefully. Dear rich people, you were warned.

If the greedy bastards in the Epstein Class paid their taxes, and the cap on contributions was removed, this would be a non-issue.

Being pragmatic works better than Being anxious

but we should stop paying into it then.

We won't get any of it.

Tax the rich!

Not to mention that survival is hard when the people in charge want it gone.

God forbid people have a menial amount of money for retirement. The government hates that, they have their fully funded retirement plans.

Trump wants to give OUR social security fund to Blackrock to invest. This regime had a meeting w/ Blackrock bc they are "worried" about social security. WTF! They charge astronomical fees and will more than likely steel our money using it as a slush fund for themselves. Raise the cap. Problem solved

We need wars and ballrooms fuck people living and getting medical Care. This country isn't for the people or about the people it's founded on the backs of the slaves called people.

LMAO white rich Americans hate children and seniors, they only tolerate 18-65 for cheap labour 🤣 Americans suck at voting for anything that helps them, but damn good at voting to destroy themselves,this is what happens when you let Republicans defund education!

My anxiety grows bc - -Project 2025 goal to eliminate SS - Republicans created the “funding cliff” cover story #taxtherich -they’ll say we also can’t afford it bc of the unchecked spending of our $: $1 B on ballroom, wasting billions daily on a useless, already lost, war that’s now a quagmire,etc

The Republican Far Right has been trying to get rid of Social Security since it was first introduced in the Roosevelt Administration.

its also used heavily by disabled people, its not just for the elderly oh my god stop

Forbes? More scare tactics? Why not just throw the admin USA to the wolves @ ICC along with Mr Yahoo & Puketon? Kill 3 birds w/ one stone?

Simply remove the contributions cap. Problem solved.

Social Security cliff: horrendous. $39 trillion debt and over a trillion dollars yearly interest payment on said debt, ... crickets.

Stop letting companies do stock buybacks and offshoring money.

Remove the cap

They want us all dead If starving us to death works They are ok with it #SocialSecurity

The reason this is even a topic is George W Bush BORROWED trillions from the SS Trust fund Conservatives have been trying to wreck social programs since their inception. But Americans are having NONE of it. Other than billionaires + a handful of right wing nut jobs NO ONE is buying conservatism