Who Is Finished Paying Their 2017 Social Security Taxes? Probably Not You.
Extreme earnings inequality explains the Social Security shortfall because Social Security taxes are only collected on incomes below an earnings cap. In 2016, the cap was $118,500 (which is indexed to average wage growth, not the wage growth at the top).
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