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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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Social security benefits shouldn't be proportional to income, it should be a set amount that everyone is eligible and it should be collected proportional to income including capital gains and everything else.
That's a UBI, not Social Security. It's a great idea! But it's not Social Security.
If that were UBI then I would get paid before I was 67.
Social security paying retirement and disability payments is different from UBI. I am simply saying paying in should be proportional to income but the benefits should not.
A CEO and minimum wage worker should get the same social security benefits and they would be higher than they currently are if we taxed the Epstein class properly.