“The reality is that Social Security is not a government handout. It is a benefit that is earned and paid for through… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“One change we believe should be made is increasing the maximum amount of wages on which Social Security’s contributions are assessed. Contributions… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“Social Security runs seamlessly and efficiently—less than 1 percent of its expenditures are for administration.” — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“Without Social Security, the official U.S. poverty rate among the aged would jump from 9 percent to nearly 50 percent—about the same… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“Although Social Security’s benefits are modest, they are extremely important for the vast majority of beneficiaries, especially those with low and moderate… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“Generations of Americans built our Social Security system to provide basic and widespread protection against loss of earnings arising from the death,… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“DOES EVERYONE IN AND NO ONE OUT INCLUDE ALL IMMIGRANTS? Immigrants contribute tens of billions of dollars to our economy, and the… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“Two scholars who served on the staff of President Reagan’s 1982 National Commission on Social Security Reform explain that Social Security does… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“Social Security gives concrete expression to widely held and time-honored American commitments. Grounded in values of shared responsibility and concern for all… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
Politicians like to talk about the income tax when they talk about overtaxing the rich, but the income tax is just one… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“The worst proposals are to radically transform Social Security by privatizing, which would put people at the mercy of the stock and… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“Wage insurance works best when all workers are covered under the same plan and the coverage starts at the beginning of their working lives.… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“Pope Francis I, denouncing “an economy of exclusion,” has made inequality a centerpiece of his reign: Just as the commandment “Thou shalt not kill”… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“We have created a society in which all the nation’s economic gains flow to the top and the vast majority sees income stagnation or… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
Congress is supposed to fund the IRS, and it has been steadily reducing the number of auditors and tax collectors the IRS has at… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“By 2012 the average income of the vast majority had shrunk to the equivalent of 45 weeks of 1973 income—a 13 percent decline to… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“The worst of these are laws in nineteen states that let companies pocket the state income taxes withheld from their workers’ paychecks for up… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“it shouldn’t be the case that the only route out of poverty is to get married to someone who also has a job.” — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“Halliburton’s is a more extreme example, one in which a powerful and wealthy company transcends national borders so thoroughly that it is not an… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“The real income reported on federal tax returns by the vast majority of Americans, the 90 percent, doubled between the end of the war and 1973.” — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
You, as a wage earner have to pay your taxes every year on your income for that year. So if you have a one-time… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“Social Security gives concrete expression to widely held and time-honored American commitments. Grounded in values of shared responsibility and concern for all members of… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“The anthropologist Elliot Liebow observed it in the men he chronicled in Tally’s Corner, his insightful 1967 book on the lives and attitudes of… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“One change we believe should be made is increasing the maximum amount of wages on which Social Security’s contributions are assessed. Contributions are assessed… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“Not surprisingly, this huge American “industry” has huge political clout—with the expansion of prosecutorial and correctional workers’ power, the growing number of lobbyists for… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
