Ghilarducci, writing in the Huffington Post, tells us,
199 earn a wage or salary of over $50 million a year which turns out to be about $117,000 daily...after today those fellow country men and women stop paying Social Security taxes ... The Social Security earnings cap is $117,000 per year.Medicare, on the other hand, has no cap. The lucky people who annually earn $50 million or more (like, um, McKesson's $51.7-million-a-year-man John Hammergren) will still pay Medicare taxes through the end of the year. (If you're looking for a list of those people, by the way, click here.)
What would happen if the Social Security cap were removed? The multimillionaires would still be multimillionaires, but Social Security would be even more solvent than it is today.
Our friends at Strengthen Social Security remind us:
Social Security has a large and growing surplus. Social Security’s cumulative surplus is projected to be roughly $2.8 trillion in 2013, and will reach $2.9 trillion in 2020. Without any Congressional action to increase its revenue or cut its benefits, Social Security will continue to pay benefits to America’s eligible working families for around two decades.Odious billionaires like Pete Peterson would prefer cutting the benefits that ordinary people earned to eliminating the cap.
We can't let that happen, can we?
