http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SocialSecurityTaxRateSameforAll/ Make the Social Security wage base the same base as it is for the Medicare tax: all wages, not limited to just wages under $97,500. It's not fair that high income wage earners are exempt from the Social Secuirty tax on all their earnings over the Social Security wage base ($97,500 in 2007). The Social Security financial structure needs these incremental revenues, which the Social Security formulas will progressively benefit those who need it most. The Social Security wage base is limited in 2007 to annual wage earnings of $97,500. Why should someone earning just under $97,500 be in a higher tax bracket than someone earning more than $97,500? Yet, for those whose earnings are over $97,500 they are exempt from paying the 6.2% portion of Social Security. That's not fair and it's not a smart way to fund Social Security. They're not exempt from the Medicare tax on income over the wage base, and they shouldn't be exempt from the Social Security tax either. The wage base should be eliminated. Since the 1970's, households at the 95th percentile -- that is, households richer than 19 out of 20 Americans -- have seen their real income rise less than 1 percent a year since the late 1970's. Yet, the income of the richest 1 percent has roughly doubled. And the income of the top 0.01 percent -- people with incomes of more than $5 million in 2004 -- has risen by a factor of 5. So, these folks earning over the Social Security wage base can afford to pay the same Social Security tax rate as everyone else does, and I am confident that they would be happy to pay that tax given the abundance of their earnings. [Source for data: Paul Krugman, “Whining over Discontent,” 9/8/06, NY Times] We need the Social Security taxes from all our workers in the system on all their earned income; high income earners should not be exempt from the tax. Yes, they will earn a larger Social Security benefit as a result, and they will have earned it. The formulas within the Social Security system assure a progressive result so that this additional tax revenue wil go to those age earners who need it most. We're all in this together; the wage base divides us. Make it unlimited or eliminate it: it's the same effect that would tax us all at the same Social Security tax rate on all our earned income. Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:0:02 CST en-us 3 http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SocialSecurityTaxRateSameforAll/#sig5021278 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SocialSecurityTaxRateSameforAll/#sig4269232 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition Carol Burke http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SocialSecurityTaxRateSameforAll/#sig3660343 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SocialSecurityTaxRateSameforAll/#sig3098004 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST You people are idiots. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SocialSecurityTaxRateSameforAll/#sig3075733 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Today's millionaire maybe next year's diability recipient. Please remove the cap, but also increase the peak benifit for those who make high contributions over many years. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SocialSecurityTaxRateSameforAll/#sig3031336 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Since one of the ideas is to split strings not into words, but hopefully into phrases more semantically informative than the words they are made of, doing that better should mean better suggestions, and avoiding what essentially are word n-tuples should make for smaller data and slightly faster querying. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SocialSecurityTaxRateSameforAll/#sig3029333 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Since one of the ideas is to split strings not into words, but hopefully into phrases more semantically informative than the words they are made of, doing that better should mean better suggestions, and avoiding what essentially are word n-tuples should make for smaller data and slightly faster querying. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SocialSecurityTaxRateSameforAll/#sig3028821 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Since one of the ideas is to split strings not into words, but hopefully into phrases more semantically informative than the words they are made of, doing that better should mean better suggestions, and avoiding what essentially are word n-tuples should make for smaller data and slightly faster querying. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SocialSecurityTaxRateSameforAll/#sig3025263 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Superb! (I wrote something else and then I read below that I aint supposed ter. So I deleted it.) http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SocialSecurityTaxRateSameforAll/#sig3011393 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Bonjour! What a super websight! Very refreshing to peruse from where we live in Paris (France). I eat frogs and drink wine. Woold like more informatons on this. Best regards! Mikael. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SocialSecurityTaxRateSameforAll/#sig3010870 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I got the same tramadol attack... well, not the same, because it was only about 20 comments instead of 90, and i t have any filtering set up, and I just deleted them one at a time... hmm.. the only thing really in common was that it was about tramadol... what filter do you have set up that caught them all? http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SocialSecurityTaxRateSameforAll/#sig3009878 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I got the same tramadol attack... well, not the same, because it was only about 20 comments instead of 90, and i t have any filtering set up, and I just deleted them one at a time... hmm.. the only thing really in common was that it was about tramadol... what filter do you have set up that caught them all? http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SocialSecurityTaxRateSameforAll/#sig2873709 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SocialSecurityTaxRateSameforAll/#sig2870548 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SocialSecurityTaxRateSameforAll/#sig2862197 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SocialSecurityTaxRateSameforAll/#sig2858427 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST