Sentences with phrase «on social security reform»

What's your view on any Social Security reform plan that would increase the Social Security tax rate, keeping in mind that independent contractors pay double the rate that employers pay (15.3 percent vs. 7.65 percent)?

He served as an adviser to the National Commission on Social Security Reform from February 1982 to January 1983.

So my argument is that this mission, and the moral values that underpin it, require Labour to lead the way on social security reform.

Citizens who care about justice for future generations should demand answers on Social Security reform from the presidential candidates.

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Possible reforms could include raising the full retirement age for Social Security to 70 for workers who are currently under age 40; cutting benefits; increasing payroll taxes on workers; increasing Medicare premiums; and making Social Security benefits more progressive — meaning cutting benefits for high - income workers, while preserving payouts for low - income earners.

A crucial plank in fiscal reform is slowing runaway spending on entitlements, chiefly Social Security and Medicare.

Cato Institute senior fellow, Michael Tanner heads research into a variety of domestic policies with a particular emphasis on poverty and social welfare policy, health care reform, and Social Secsocial welfare policy, health care reform, and Social SecSocial Security.

Reforms such as higher taxes, lower benefits and delayed retirement are designed to put Social Security on a firm financial footing, so that the sheer passage of time does not force future payees and retirees into a crisis that would severely hurt both groups.

So if we take Gingrich seriously and assume he wants to get to a sustainable budget, he would have to take the Ryan spending cuts, then pile on top the spending cuts it would take to offset his tax cuts and then pile on the spending cuts it would take to offset his Social Security reform plan.

He litigated major law reform and class action cases in the federal court of appeals and Supreme Court on Social Security, Medicaid, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, SNAP / Food Stamps and other public benefits issues, and the rights of children born out of wedlock.

A Spending Review this summer also needs to make a start on long - term social security reform which rewards work.

We need a plan for social security reform, stronger protection for workers and a repeal of the trade union act, and a wide review on workers rights, a real living wage, investment in local services, and reversing Tory cuts to policing.

The update of the social security information of employees on the payroll system was aimed at cleaning the mechanized payroll database, which forms part of the Public Financial Management Reform program

What Labour needs is a new social democratic revisionism, that heavily focuses on restructuring the welfare state, to unite communitarian and cosmopolitan voters, in an era of globalization, high inequalities, increased demands for choice, and an ageing population This requires applying the principles of solidarity, reciprocity and individual empowerment, in relation to reforming the welfare state, to make it more effective at tackling poverty and providing economic security, and to satisfy rising demands for choice.

The conference, and the new report, is to aid local authorities in developing their local child poverty strategies to meet the need generated by social security cuts and reforms, and to look at the opportunities they have to make progress on poverty prevention and reduction.

On coming to power, Labour declared that reform of the whole social security system was a priority.

He has also done work on Social Security, healthcare, tax, and banking reform.

The wider task of comprehensive social security reform would inevitably require a high - level body to review and advise on the harmonization of various initiatives and deductions from workers» payrolls in the name of welfare, such as pension contributions, national housing fund, national health insurance etc

«Whereas, the movement further resolved to be inspired and motivated by the ideals of social democracy, with great emphasis on: the triumph of social justice; the nobility of human dignity; the harmony of fairness and equality; the power of working together in solidarity; the excellence of good governance, driven by good leadership; the wisdom of reforms and transformation far beyond mere growth; the horror of poverty, demanding eradication; the dignity of prosperity; the imperative of democracy and the security of peace with justice

«This grassroots outpouring shows that the path to winning elections - and keeping the Senate - is to campaign on an economic populist agenda including Wall Street reform, expanding Social Security benefits, and reducing student debt.»

The focus therefore will be on the rest of the agenda: financial, fiscal, land and government administration reforms, pricing of resources, changes to social security and opening protected sectors to private and foreign competition.

Her focus is on education, where the teachers unions have blocked meaningful reforms for years; protecting bad teachers from being terminated, promoting based on seniority instead of merit, taking over local school boards with hand - picked, union - financed candidates, attacking charter schools, prioritizing teacher compensation and job security over student achievement, and pushing a social agenda in front of academic fundamentals.

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In addition to altering the tax brackets, the Tax Reform Act of 1986 eliminated certain tax shelters: It required people claiming children as dependents to provide Social Security numbers for each child on their tax returns, it expanded the Alternative Minimum Tax and increased the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction to incentivize homeownership.

The tax, passed as part of the 1983 reforms that were supposed to make Social Security solvent for 75 years, may bother you and me, but it will have a much greater impact on our children and grandchildren.

Following these consultations, the Australian Government introduced the Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Welfare Reform and Reinstatement of Racial Discrimination Act) Bill 2009 (Cth)(Welfare Reform Bill) into Parliament on 25 November 2009.

My reform plan includes no reduction in benefits for retirees or those nearing retirement; the setting aside of $ 2 trillion over the next decade to protect the fund; and the creation of a «lock box» to make sure Social Security funds are not spent on anything else.