Senator Biden
Reagan started taxing Social Security in 1984 up to 50%. Clinton raised it to up to 85% around 1993.
The largest portions of the federal budget are used for entitlement programs, such as Social Security (retirement and disability payments), Medicare, then followed by outlays for the Dept. of Defense, and then for interest payments on the national debt.
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What do you mean? That he personally is responsible for a tax on Social Security? If so, no. The tax has been on social security for years before Gore was in office. A Vice President doesn't have the power to do something like that anyway.
The federal government began taxing Social Security annuities in 1984, after Congress passed amendments to the Social Security Act in early 1983, and President Reagan signed the legislation into law in April of that year. The 1984 rule allowed 50% of a person's annual Social Security income to be taxed, if that person's total taxable income reached a certain threshold. Alan Greenspan, who later became Chairman of the Federal Reserve, recommended the change. For more information, see Related Links, below.
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the tax on Social Security was instituted in 1983, long before the Tax Reform Act was even considered. Claiming that Reagan imposed the tax on Social Security benefits ignores that it was a widespread bipartisan effort, passed easily and quickly with overwhelming support by a Democratic House and Republican Senate. Why did it have such bipartisan support? By the 1980s, Social Security was in big trouble. Starting in 1975, SS expenditures exceeded revenues and its reserves were close to being exhausted. It was anticipated that, without legislative action, it would not have been possible to continue paying benefits on time beginning in July 1983.
No. Social Security benefits by itself would not be taxable income to you. Social Security is only taxable if you have other income in excess of certain thresholds. Since you have no other income, your Social Security is not be taxable.
The actions of the Nazi party during World War 2 were contemptible. Taxing Social Security earnings is viewed by some as a contemptible act by the federal government.
Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA). The payroll taxes are sometimes even called "FICA taxes." In the original 1935 law the benefit provisions were in Title II of the Act (which is why we sometimes call Social Security the "Title II" program.) The taxing provisions were in a separate title, Title VIII. There is a deep reason for this, having to do with the constitutionality of the law (see discussion of the Constitutionality of the 1935 Act). As part of the 1939 Amendments, the Title VIII taxing provisions were taken out of the Social Security Act and placed in the Internal Revenue Code. Since it wouldn't make any sense to call this new section of the Internal Revenue Code "Title VIII," it was renamed the "Federal Insurance Contributions Act." The payroll taxes collected for Social Security are of course taxes, but they can also be described as contributions to the social insurance system that is Social Security. Hence the name "Federal Insurance Contributions Act." So FICA is nothing more than the tax provisions of the Social Security Act, as they appear in the Internal Revenue Code.
Grenville was the person who proposed to begin taxing the colonists in America more after the end of the Seven Years' War.
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