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Would Taxing Workplace Health Benefits Help Save Social Security?
Features September 02, 2025 at 04:29 PM
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- This policy change would raise payroll taxes by about $400 per year on average and reduce the program’s 75-year shortfall by about 25, a new paper finds.
- But the burden would fall most heavily on the lowest earners.
- Still, such a tax could be made part of a larger reform package that balances the needs of all stakeholders.
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