Bout #492Live Decision· Economy · Entitlements

Saving Social Security Before 2034

Without changes, Social Security can only pay roughly 80% of scheduled benefits once its trust fund runs dry. Two rival packages — one raising the payroll-tax cap, one gradually adjusting the retirement age and benefit formula — are on the table.

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Republican Corner · GOP

Tax the Top

We can't tax our way out — modernize the program

Americans are living and working longer. Gradually adjusting the retirement age, tightening the benefit formula for high earners, and giving younger workers more choice puts the program on solid ground.

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Demographics Don't Lie

When Social Security was created, retirees collected for a few years. Today, retirements routinely last 25-30. The system has to reflect that.

Don't Punish Work

Lifting the payroll-tax cap is a massive tax hike on dual-earner professional households and small-business owners.

Personal Accounts

Giving younger workers partial ownership of their own retirement contributions creates real wealth and reduces dependence on Washington.

GOP

Democrat Corner · DEM

Reform the Program

Earned benefits are sacred — make billionaires pay their share

A CEO making $20M stops contributing to Social Security in early January. Lifting the cap fixes most of the shortfall without cutting a single grandmother's check.

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Simple Fairness

Workers earning under $168,600 pay payroll tax on every dollar. Anyone above that pays on a shrinking share. Closing that gap is overwhelmingly popular.

Don't Cut Benefits

Raising the retirement age is a benefit cut, and it hits hardest on blue-collar workers whose bodies can't make it to 70.

It's an Earned Right

Americans paid in their whole lives. Telling them now to take 20% less, or work years longer, is a broken promise.

DEM

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