{"id":1091,"date":"2011-09-12T16:35:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T23:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2011-11-12T05:25:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T13:25:35","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-on-social-security-makes-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=1091","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Republic letter to the editor on Social Security makes sense: tax the rich equally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Henry4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1096 aligncenter\" title=\"Henry\" src=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Henry4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Henry4.jpg 363w, http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Henry4-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>CEO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tax break shorts Social Security<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Social Security should not be placed on the cutting board by either of our political parties. Presently, Social Security is in the black with $2.6 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the demands that Baby Boomers will place on Social Security is extremely simple.<\/p>\n<p>It should not matter how much is earned each year, the Social Security tax (FICA) should be paid on total earnings and not capped at $106,000 dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The average American worker has always paid the full Social Security tax. Therefore, the CEOs of large corporations who average $11 million should pay the tax on the entire amount and not just the first $106,000.<\/p>\n<p>Democracy is advanced when there is fairness in all taxation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>by Henry Denny and Judy Powell, Chino Valley, AZ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can follow the rather extensive thread of comments generated by this brief letter on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/arizonarepublic\/opinions\/articles\/2011\/08\/28\/20110828sunlets281.html\">Arizona Republic&#8217;s online site:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tax break shorts Social Security Social Security should not be placed on the cutting board by either of our political parties. Presently, Social Security is in the black with $2.6 trillion. Even with the demands that Baby Boomers will place on Social Security is extremely simple. It should not matter how much is earned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,6],"tags":[328,329,327],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}