Boost Social Security by broadening the base, lowering tax rate

How's this for an easy, painless way to solve the Social Security "problem?" We reduce the Social Security deduction to 5 percent — or even 4 percent or 3 percent but deduct it from all of everyone's income. After all, it is deducted from 100 percent of my income, and of most people's income, so why not from everyone's income?

January 7, 2013