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9. For the record, recently Alex Lawson stated the reason
Sun Dec 22, 2024, 11:47 PM
Dec 22

Social Security income does not match benefits paid out: because so much income has increasingly gone to upper income earners, thus bypassing being taxed for Social Security and Medicare.

In other words, Republican driven income inequality is the real reason that Social Security is projected to not be able to pay full benefits in the future. They create the problem, then refuse to raise the cap to solve it. Lawson revealed this when he was on Thom Hartmann's show recently.

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