Graham Platner: “Every dollar over $176,000 of income that someone makes does…”

“Yeah. A month is kind of insulting. I think what we have to do is remove the cap on Social Security contributions. So right now, Every dollar over $176,000 of income that someone makes does not go into Social Security contributions. which means that somebody making $25 million a year pays the exact same dollar amount into Social Security as somebody making $176,000 a year.” (08:19–08:42)

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