A small, elite group of US citizens has already met their 2014 financial obligation for Social Security two days into the New Year, and will no longer be required to contribute any of their income to the federal program. Nearly all working Americans will continue to pay the social security tax through the duration of 2014. The 900 wealthiest, however, have fulfilled their responsibility for the whole year on Thursday by earning $117,000 – the maximum total social security is allowed to take from an individual income each year – on the first and second days of the month. Teresa Ghilarducci, an economics professor at the New School for Social Research, wrote that if everyone eligible paid all year long, “the Social security system would be solvent indefinitely and they still would be the richest and prettiest in all the land.” Exactly who made enough money to qualify for the end of Social Security payments will be difficult to ascertain until the end of 2014, but by January 2, 2012, 894 individuals across the nation had already fulfilled their commitment. The Los Angeles Times noted that this exclusive club was made up of mostly corporate CEOs who were not in the 1 percent or .01 percent, but rather the .0001 percent of high income earners. Executives at NewsCorp, Philip Morris, Pfizer, ComCast, and Starbucks all made up 70 of the 894 that year.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:16:18 +0000
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