For an alternate viewpoint, see “Point: Social Security’s Future Is a Question of Values, Not Affordability.” I oppose the proposed elimination in 2023 of the $160,200 cap on earnings subject to the payroll tax rate of 12.4 percent paid to Social Security. Dating back to its original days in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration, Social […]
Author Archives: Mark J. Warshawsky
Senior Fellow Mark J. Warshawsky is the Searle Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He previously served as assistant secretary for economic policy at the US Department of the Treasury and deputy commissioner for retirement and disability policy at the Social Security Administration. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.