The annual report of the basic program for Social Security states that the fund begins to show the deficit. The main cause is the "boom" effect child. In 2004, the annual deficit for 2033 years was 300 billion dollars, is expected to exhaust Social Security reserves in 2041. This question has become "the third rail of American politics", in other words, if you touch, are considered dead. Some presidential candidates offered during their campaignsresolve this problem, but it seems that their proposals do not address the current crisis on Wall Street and the housing market.
The proposals by presidential candidates
McCain's first proposal was to give workers the opportunity to invest at least 20% of their payroll taxes into private accounts SS. The Obama proposal, President Elect, is to use a donut, which means no social security tax would be paid a basic salary of between $ 102,000 ongoingand $ 250,000.
President Bush has proposed the creation of personal pension funds (PRA) which would allow all workers to invest part of their payroll taxes into personal accounts in their possession. However, the rescue of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other organizations, has a direct effect on the stock market and, consequently, the behavior of shareholders. Investment of any kind is risky because there is no way to predict the future if the company is committed publicly or privatelyrisk.
Obama's proposal proved to be a reaction in the past, particularly in the current economic crisis. Remember that the percentage of taxpayers submitting their work to small firms was not significantly influenced by the SECA tax increase, but the benchmark of taxable income has decreased from 1951 to 1992.
explore solutions
The famous phrase: "big problems, the solutions together" seems to fit very well in this case, so here are some ideasare on the table. Excludes some reforms implemented by the Greenspan Commission's 1983 amendments to the SSA, as a reduction of benefits and increasing retirement ages. Because we had many problems because of the current economic crisis and reform FICA, we do not like the fact that they pay more taxes if we get fewer benefits. This is why these ideas to reduce the deficit to come from Social Security by using indirect sources of income could be veryattractive.
.- Taxation of Electronic Commerce
Under the Duke Law and Technology. Rev. (2006-0005), during 2004, e-commerce sales accounted for approximately 2.2% of total U.S. sales, which can be translated to 15.5 billion dollars in lost revenue. Analysts estimate that the losses could rise to 21.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2008.
Nurses Legalize immigrants .-
In 2006, the U. S. Department of Health and Social Services, 100.0000 foreign nurses have worked in this country. The current account deficitNursing is about 200,000 and the forecast is that we will need 800,000 nurses by 2020. The U.S. government helps to reduce this deficit, allowing the entry of temporary foreign nurses (especially the Philippines). From 2003 to 2007 and their employers, they would pay a deficit bit 'ahead of the social security program amounted to 2.48 billion U.S. dollars (100,000 x 4 years nurses. X 12.4% x $ 50,000 annual salary).
Discriminatory tax policy for the richPersons: Managing Director and property tax .-
According to Forbes, the leaders of the 500 largest companies have won a total of about 29.2 billion dollars over the past 5 years. If we take away the FICA cap this and apply it to all the CEOs, they do not miss a further 6.2%. Moreover, the federal government has lost an average of $ 29 billion in property tax revenue between 2003 and 2007. I will not raise taxes without distinction to all those who earn more than $ 250,000 because of people likeSelf-employers may be forced into bankruptcy.
Implement more taxes for government employees .-
Most government workers do not pay tax on their pension because their pension plan, which is paid with 'taxpayer's money. According to the U.S. Census Bureau from 2003 to 2007, these workers were about 34.6 million (6.5 + 6.5 + 7 + 7.3 + 7.3, respectively). If we consider an average wage of $ 50.00 multiplied by 6.2%, the total payroll tax of 5year was 107.26 billion dollars.
Conclusions .-
Let's see what might be feasible proposal to resolve the problem of the deficit to come. Government employees who do not pay taxes now would have covered the deficit of the Trust Fund OASD 107 billion dollars already. The second best option is to start taxing e-commerce, because we lost an average of 15 billion dollars annually (90 billion dollars for the last 6 years). Although falling short of nursespaid a small amount of payroll taxes, legalization of foreign nurses is a necessity. The rationale for taxing e-commerce, property, people and general managers is essentially a question of equity and social justice business.