6 Millions of people pay into Social Security for over 40 years and die without ever getting a dime from it. How many of them have children in their 30s? I saw on bulletin board at UNH over 32 years ago that black men are likely to live shorter lives than white men.
7 Based on percentage of population how many black males never get any money from Social Security. Is this the percentage for black males significantly higher than white males?
8 The Social Security tax should be placed on all wages a person makes in a year including stock options - difference between bought at and sold at. Companies should not match on employee wages above $100,000 a year. We might not want employee match on employee wages above $50,000 a year
9 Federal government and state government should stop taxing money people get from Social Security. Negative externalities are the highest tax poor people pay. They shorten how long people live and cause people major health problems. www.imf.org/external/pub...
10 Tariffs, graduated sales taxes negotiated by Congress as part of trade agreements may be used to help reduce negative externalities, national debt, Global Warming, human trafficking, inflation while increasing the buying power of money and help fund Social Security, Medicare, food stamps.
11 The power to regulate value of money and the power to tariff belong solely to Congress and may not be shared with President. Our founders did not want a President who ran a huge domestic business empire to regulate the value of money and have power to tariff.
12 Social Security should allow people to invest up to 25 percent of their Social Security taxes into retirement/investment accounts and have this money used to pay for Funeral costs Life insurance Short term disability insurance Long term disability insurance Gold Index mutual funds
13 silver family owned companies government bonds For themselves, family members, others Government bonds including bonds that are used to build and run food banks, supermarkets in food deserts, homeless shelters, houses on Native American reservations, high quality affordable public housing
14 apartments that are NOT in public housing towers, public k-12 schools, free child care centers, free elder care centers, free job training, etc.
15 When people first apply for Social Security disability, they are able to get attorneys for a percentage of past due benefits. When people have Social Security Disability and Social Security says person is no longer disabled, person
16 should be able to get an attorney for a percentage of monthly benefits during the review process and Social Security should hold onto attorney fees during review process. Medicare should start when first qualify for Social Security disability.