Private accounts? Maybe
Hiking the wage cap? No
Stand on reforming the system:
Would consider private accounts (favors putting any surplus in them); no changes for those 50-plus.
Proposal to pay for the funding gap:
Favors indexing benefits to inflation; might lower benefits for those in the highest income brackets.
Mitt Romney'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) |
