Making our Social Security Sustainable

By: David Haas (w/ Fox Cities Progressive)

The system that we have now draws its income from taxes on wages and salaries but not on other forms of income. In the nineteen thirties it made sense to design the system that way, but it no longer makes sense today. We can achieve a part of our goal of making the system solvent by taxing all wages and salaries instead of only those below a certain level, but that will not do the whole job.