Private accounts? No
Hiking the wage cap? Yes
Stand on reforming the system:
Favors keeping benefit levels and retirement age as they are now.
Proposal to pay for the funding gap:
Would impose Social Security payroll taxes on income over $200,000 a year.
Barack Obama's plan
| White House hopefuls revive the debate over how to make Social Security solvent. But they favor different approaches. (more) The presidential front-runners are vying for votes with lots of new ideas, including new incentives to save, invest and buy insurance. (more) The top White House contenders are a lot richer than the rest of us. But a review of their finances shows they make a lot of the same mistakes we all do. (more) |
