C. Minnesota Northern Angle is furthest north in the continental US.  As a matter of fact, the only way to get to it by land is to drive into Canada.This is funny.  All of these people answering Maine.  Seattle, WA is further north than all of Maine.

On the part of your comment I quoted, we may have just misunderstood each other.  It seemed to be you were saying a NCE employee could get a 100% benefit based on the CE's earnings, as in equal to the CE's 100% SS benefit, instead of 50% of the CE PI...

@Roxanna35  If you saved and invested it yourself, you would have needed to buy very large life and disability insurance policies to cover for anything happening to you in those first 40 years.  SS is an insurance that pays for disability and survivo...

@Tonster521  The 90% is of all wage income.  So if all wages totaled $10 Trillion, the SS max taxable threshold would be set to collect SS taxes on $9 Trillion of that total.  Government NCE employees pay partial FICA taxes, the Medicare tax portion,...

@Tonster521 I think we crossed wires on the subject of NIIT.  I understand the right/left pocket exchange but it's not moving money for the benefit of Medicare.  That's why NIIT money doesn't show up in the Medicare Trustee Report.  NIIT brings in ab...