Raising the payroll tax is emerging as a popular fix — even in the anti-tax GOP — to fend off deep cuts in retirement benefits.
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Anti-tax Republicans discover the fix for Social Security was a tax increase all along.
“They've had the wrench sitting right there the whole time — raise the cap so income above a certain line finally pays into the system everybody else pays into their whole working life. Instead you get an AI executive fresh out of Trump's White House calling your mother's check "fraud" while the actual fix just sits on the shelf collecting dust. This was never about whether we can afford it — it's about who they've decided gets to stop paying in early.”
“Look, nobody on our side is against saving Social Security, we just believe in targeted, responsible reform, not reflexive tax hikes on — well, on income above the cap, which, I'll grant you, is mostly — did I just say we're against taxing higher earners? That's not a talking point, that's just math, forget I said that. The point is Dean Ball doesn't speak for the party, he speaks for himself, loudly, on a platform we can't control, which is a totally different problem than the one you think it is.”
The receipts
· The Social Security trust fund is running out, and yet it's not a top campaign issue from the morgue, 28 Aug 2026
· Congress is sleepwalking into a Social Security crisis from the morgue, 27 Aug 2026
· Top OpenAI Executive Labels Social Security a ‘Fraud’ That Must be Dismantled from the morgue, 26 Aug 2026
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