Usually it works the other way around, where people don't start paying a tax until their salary reaches a certain level. Somehow they've inverted this to favor the rich? Why aren't people rioting?

Sure, and also social security is the opposite of need based as well. So those people who paid tax on a tiny fraction of their income also see the largest checks after retirement age when they need zero percent of the money. Meanwhile, people who worked their whole lives and paid social security tax on 100% of their earnings don't get enough back from social security to be able to continue to live.

Yes. The tax should be progressive where the first $x are not taxed, and the rate ramps up as income increases.

It's ass-backwards like this.

While someone making millions should be taxed at 100% for SS like most of us, think about how much would be in the fund if capital gains were taxed that way as well.

The people making more than 184k do not want to be a part of our society, it seems.

The faces around her are so expressive. I wish i had the energy to give them thought bubbles

Framing social security this way is dangerously misleading. Yes, the amount you put in is capped, but the amount that you get to take out when you are old is also capped. I fully believe that taxes need to be progressive, but social security is not a tax, it’s a retirement fund.

Imagine, for a moment, what a tiny, insignificant fraction of Elon Musk's income must go to Social Security. And yet the cunt goes on JRE to say it should be abolished.

Billionaires shouldn't be respected as human beings.

Per Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget scrapping the cap would postpone the trust running out to either 2054 or 2058 depending on whether or not those who pay the now higher taxes would also receive correspondingly higher benefits or if the benefits remain capped. So an extra 20 or 24 years since presently the trust is slated to run out in 2034. When the trust runs out, benefits are going to be cut to match the money coming in which would mean about ~20% reduction to benefits.

Good start and punts the issue off for another generation, but it doesn’t quite save social security all the way.

So? Your ruling oligarchs don't care and they tell most peons how to vote. Now get back to slaving away.