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Cirsium

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3. Not quite

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2026, 07:46 PM

Jun 18

The cap means that billionaires do not "pay the same SS rate as middle‑class workers." Donna Stern gets it wrong.

Sanders has it right. "A trillionaire pays the same amount onto Social Security as someone making $184,500."

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