Reply #10: I'm sorry, but thats fucking crazy.

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You would have to extend this payroll tax cut for a long ass time before it did any significant damage to social security. Your whole argument is based on wild eyed slippery slope nonsense. If we are going to give middle class people a tax cut like this at all, at the end of the day, its going to take money out of federal coffers. It doesn't matter if it comes from the general fund or the social security fund. That "wall" between the 2 never has and probably never will mean a damn thing. Its a phony wall to begin with. If you take money out of revenue and give it to people, you are putting social security and any other government program under the same exact "threat". Everytime you argue for any kind of stimulus that is not offset by something else, then you are advocating for a scenario that presents the same potential "danger" to social security that you are describing. It is no different.

The fact of the matter is, if we want Social Security to be solvent, we have to raise the cap. And if we actually did raise the cap, we could make a payroll tax cut like this permanent or even a bit larger because the additional money coming from upper income earners would more than cover it.