All of Social Security's ills would be solved if we would just raise the ceiling on the top contribution amount. Right now you pay into Social Security for your first $90,000. If we raise it to $150,000, we won't have to raise the retirement age OR cut benefits. Why can't we do that?

The original idea behind capitalism and the industrial revolution is that people would work in factories to earn money to buy the very goods they produced.  Because corporations offshored our jobs for short-term gain, their consumers will soon have no money to buy their products & services. Corporations will crumble un...more