Which you till pay taxes on.

This, combined with the numerous bureaucrats and tech professionals who are their donors is why that donut hole was selected.

Ultimately it's telling they don't just try to lift the cap entirely.

I'm kinda similar in weight but 9 cm taller, I've dabbled in low BMI levels

OH MY GOD, YOU SHORT-SOLD KENNY!!!

Earned income tax credit offsets that issue. Or are you making an argument to replace the flat payroll tax with a progressive tax ?

Obviously it was a joke. But not all bribes are in the form of campaign funds. Other bribes are the paid speeches and future employment offers

Hmm, maybe forcing people to pay into a system they might not survive to benefit from was a bad idea.

Depends on life expectancy gender and spousal benefit

>The result in this study implies that the differential mortality between low earners and high earners reduce the progressivity of Social Security. Estimates show that, under current Social Security, the IRR (i.e., the rate of return of lifetime payroll taxes) for the 1930 cohort in the bottom income quintile is 1.67% compared with 2.28% for those in the top income quintile. This difference in IRR is widened for the 1960 cohort due to larger mortality differences—0.6% for the bottom income quintile compared with 2.46% for the top income quintile.

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44846

The fact you don't pay payroll taxes on something that isn't payroll is the point.

The y-axis is kinda useless for inference because of endogeneity.

It’s increased every year

https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2023/02/should-we-eliminate-the-social-security-tax-cap-here-are-the-pros-and-cons

It would be interesting to see this visualized on a map

If the campaign funds improve their chances of winning election,they personally benefit

You seem to be confusing campaign funding with income.

As someone who was once employed by those heartless bastards, I completely understand why people of modest means shop there, but why anyone who can afford to shop anywhere else doesn’t. They are awful for nearly every aspect of small town America, and they cost the taxpayers billions of dollars a year. They are one of the worst corporations ever, and should only be compared to a hybrid of a locust and a vampire squid on the face of humanity.

That’s a façade, congress makes MOST of their income via bribes.

Thank god the republicans got rid of Dodd-Frank (which was toothless anyway).

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Depends on how you interpret the facts. If nothing changes, all SS beneficiaries receive a 20-30% reduction in benefits when the funds are depleted. What republicans say is that the cuts are coming. We can either plan for them or it’s an across the board cut.

Obviously for political reasons, that turns into pushing granny off a cliff

Free for Amex Platinum. Suspect that’s a major driver.

Loving my credit unions right about now.

This is awesome! What's the hardest to improve?

Walmart+ appeals to people because they don’t have to go to Walmart and interact with the regulars

During my time training in high school, I was able to hit 195 for a single at my peak, at 5’10” and around 160 lbs. Starting back up was a little rough, I even struggled with 135 initially when I got back into it, but consistency and working on my form has done wonders.

Good natural genetics if you're benching 225lbs at 18 with minimal training

I trained for about a year and a half when I was around 15-16, then stopped through high school. I just started again the summer before uni, and have been tracking since then!