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Mark Pocan: “If you lift the cap completely, if you just did that and…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Mark Pocan Discusses Impact of Proposed Health Care and Social Program Cuts in Wisconsin Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 1:01:58

That's silly to have a doughnut hole of between 170,000 and 400. But it does that. And out of that, it not only adds decades of life to the Social Security fund. If you lift the cap completely, if you just did that and just you pay no matter how much, the same percent. You add 75 years to the Social Security Trust Fund. Right. Just as an example. But this bill raised it at 400. You could tweak that number to where it probably should be. (1:01:58–1:02:07)

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