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Profit Sharing 26 Rumors and Guesses
02-19-2026 | 11:09 AM
#281
Line Holder
Joined: Jul 2023
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Allow me to dodge your question too…
1) I don’t favor means testing. If you paid into SS you should be allowed to take a benefit. Or to have your surviving spouse take your benefit. Therefore I don’t find it a helpful exercise deciding where the line is between rich and poor.
2) I also pay taxes that I fundamentally disagree with. But I am fine with how you have described SS (as a tax that you may not derive benefit from). SS was never intended to be a personal retirement fund susceptible to the rise and fall of the market like your 401(k).
3) The taxable wage base should be increased to provide for increased benefits from old and dying boomers. Then it should rise automatically with a cost of living index (it may already, I don’t know).
1) I don’t favor means testing. If you paid into SS you should be allowed to take a benefit. Or to have your surviving spouse take your benefit. Therefore I don’t find it a helpful exercise deciding where the line is between rich and poor.
2) I also pay taxes that I fundamentally disagree with. But I am fine with how you have described SS (as a tax that you may not derive benefit from). SS was never intended to be a personal retirement fund susceptible to the rise and fall of the market like your 401(k).
3) The taxable wage base should be increased to provide for increased benefits from old and dying boomers. Then it should rise automatically with a cost of living index (it may already, I don’t know).
02-19-2026 | 11:53 AM
#283
On Reserve
Joined: Oct 2025
Posts: 197
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What are your thoughts on people who are living on SS benefits being penalized for working?
02-19-2026 | 11:54 AM
#284
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Jul 2010
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From: window seat
02-19-2026 | 12:01 PM
#287
Moderator
Joined: Sep 2011
Posts: 8,209
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[mod input] if folks want to continue talking about philosophical lines on basic economic issues, please start a thread in “Hangar Talk” in the Pilot Lounge area of APC. This really isn’t the appropriate place to be talking about this. Has zero to do with the company.
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