Over at Gateway Pundit, Margaret Flavin suggests that Elizabeth Warren “continues to display her ignorance,” revealing that she “does not understand how Social Security works.”
She references this post by Warren on X:
When Elon Musk, the richest man on earth, is set to pay the same amount in taxes as your neighborhood dentist, we’ve got a problem.
I’m fighting to get the wealthy to pay their fair share into Social Security so we can increase benefits.
Flavin suggests that Warren “seems unaware that Social Security earnings and payouts are both capped.” I’m not so sure about that. In fact, the sheer vagueness of the statement strikes me as rather clever.
Warren fails to mention, of course, that the neighborhood dentist, who may earn, say, $200K annually, would also have his Social Security taxes increased by eliminating the payroll tax cap. And there seems to be a purposefully absent specificity about just whose benefits would be increased. There wouldn’t be much upside, after all, to mentioning that some higher income earners, like the neighborhood dentist, would be excluded from any Social Security benefit increases alongside Elon…
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