Editor:

Rafe Godfrey's recent op-ed on Social Security offered a very simple, logical solution for shoring up the financial future of the program. Op-Ed Commentaries

Rafe Godfrey: There's a way to shore up Social Security (Opinion)

By Rafe Godfrey

3 min to read

Raising the income cap upon which Social Security payments are based makes sense. What doesn't make sense is a person making $40,000 a year paying a higher percentage of their salary into Social Security than a person making $400,000 a year.

If the cap of $176,100 was raised to $250,000, the impact would be significant, immediate and fair.

I will not hold my breath waiting for common sense to kick in. As Godfrey pointed out, nobody is even talking about this idea as a way of solving the underfunding.

Such a change would

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