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Those are payroll taxes, not income or wealth taxes that would be targeting the rich.



SS payments are now also paid from treasury reserves, so collected general taxes do in fact pay for (part of) SS.

Also, there is no reason that the cap on SS tax collection shouldn't be lifted.




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