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The Impact of Higher Taxes on Social Security
If we did crunch those numbers, and it does seem like er would have been higher tax revenue. However, a lot of that income is capital income, and are things that are taxed at different rates. And so it's hard, hard to say definitively. I will say though, that given that pay roll taxes would have be higher, which funds meti care and social security,. If if people's incomes had tract with broader economic growth, then you would have seen a much, much more revenue going into social security. But thertherere a lot of moving parts there.
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