Social Security and taxes

[MaryRose416568]

The government promise of an additional $4K of deduction for seniors at tax time does not go far enough to deal with SS and taxes.  In 1983 when they started taxing SS income, only 10% of people receiving SS paid taxes, today is it over 50%.  This is because the income level for taxing of 25K-35K has not changed since 1983. (25K in 1983 is about 80K in 2025 according to a website calculator).  So they regularly increase the amount for people paying the SS tax but they never adjust this income level for paying taxes. So either the government is very poor at math, or they are ripping off the seniors. They need to adjust this 25K-35K threshold and then push up the taxable income limit.  Someone in Congress suggested using a donut hole approach and leaving the current approx 176K max in place and then starting the tax up again for incomes over 400K.  This would save SS.  I would hope that AARP would stand up to Congress and tell them that seniors deserve more. 

[sktn77a]

Well, something's gotta give.  Stop taxing SS, index income levels for taxation, etc, will just accelerate the inevitable!