President Bush today said that raising the cap on the amount of your income is subject to SS tax is on the table.
"I've been asked this question a lot, and my answer is that I'm interested in good ideas," Bush said, according to the Birmingham (Ala.) News. "The one thing I'm not open-minded about is raising the payroll tax rate, and all the other issues are on the table, and that's important for people to know."
If that is on the table, I would like to the democrats bring a few item to the table.
If the President agrees to raise the cap from 90,000 of income to, lets say 120,000. I want three things.
1 Personal Accounts, without these, there is no deal at all. I want the money that I have paid into SS, even the one third figure that is being thrown around, to belong to me. If I have paid 50 or $150,000 into SS and I die before I turn 65. I get zero! I have been robbed of that money, my children will not see a penny of it. Even if I live until age 72, SS will still have much more of my money than they gave back. A personal account that could be transferred to my children, in the event of an early death just makes sense.
2 Raise the amount of money I an contribute to my IRA, Roth IRA, SEP IRA or 401k by one half.
Make it easy for Americans to be savers.
3 Make the tax cuts permanent.
I will make that deal today.
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