Commentary: Shoring Up Social Security with a Big Tax Hike? Bad Idea

Moreno and Warren Propose Lifting Social Security Payroll Tax Cap to Avert Insolvency

To save the program, we need to eliminate the payroll tax cap.

Shoring up Social Security with a big tax hike' Bad idea

Why the Moreno–Warren Payroll Tax Hike Won’t Fix Social Security

Eliminating the payroll tax ceiling would generate a fizz of new revenues but be followed by higher benefit costs and fewer taxes available

Uncapping the Payroll Tax Would Be the Largest Tax Increase in Decades—and Still Wouldn’t Save Social Security

It is good to see senators talking about the Social Security crisis that is rapidly unfolding. But any serious proposal has to grapple with

Critics argue Warren's Social Security payroll tax cap elimination would be largest tax hike in decades

Eliminating the payroll tax cap would raise taxes on businesses, shrink the economy, and still leave Social Security insolvent.

The Elixir of the Payroll-Tax Cap and Other Social Security Myths

Progressives are wrong about how to reform the program. Conservatives are, too.