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. >> in all seriousness, and i think that dagen is right to point out that many people do pay, fica and medicare related taxes and i take nothing away from that. but when it's gotten to the point that nearly half of us are not paying income taxes because of allowances and write-offs and we don't have to, then that mean fewer and fewer have skin in the game and that's the problem. >> it's interesting, i've soon aagree with your general point. >> wish you would have said that, your remarks-- >> poor people pay taxes, too. in certain ways, if you take a certain zip code in new york city, the upper east side. you won't believe how much of federal taxes that they pay. it's tremendous, the 1% of the city pays-- >> are you on the upper east side? >> no, i'm not. >> okay. >> and all right. but that's the 1%, the 1% of the 1% and they pay a lot of taxes. >> ben stein, my only point in mentioning this, i hear a lot of democrats, liberals talking the rich paid their fair share, that's fine, you want to make that argument. and then wouldn't it behoove you to mention those who aren't paying anything

taxes that people pay for social security is capped at the amount that i contributed by the -- by the fica taxes for those for medicare is not capped. so if someone makes $500,000 that person is paying every year into the medicare trust fund. someone making the maximum on the social security withholding, $106,000 is paying less than $1600 into the medicare trust fund. we already have a progressive way for those more well-off paying for their benefits when they retire. secondly, we change the law on medicare part b in 2007 that's already been pointed out by chairman baucus. so we already have a part b premium increase for those who make over $85,000 starting at a 35% and going up to 80%. that's already in law, so we already are asking those who are retired who have more income to pay more. and then lastly in the affordable care act we put an additional surtax into effect for higher income payers starting in 2013. we went to the source three times and in response to senator kyl there's a big difference between someone currently earning taxable income over $1 million and one who is retired wh

mentioned of congressman from the house education work force committee which has the jurisdiction over fica in the house is looking at the precise questions regarding benefit levels that this bill would address. so i'm eker -- eager, mr. chairman, it's time to work with you and workers and with the committee on workers' compensation reform. but we cannot hold the survival of the postal service hostage, workers' compensation on compensation changes. so if we act prematurely, we may set benefit level as i mentioned too low, seriously harming disabled employees or even too high. and i feel strongly that we must be extremely cautious not to make arbitrary cuts to benefits or disable due to injuries sustained in the service of the country and the reason why, mr. chairman, that i offer this amendment to strike the entire title of the bill. >> thanks, senator akaka. senator collins? >> mr. chairman, just three quick points. the inspector general of the department of labor has reviewed this program every single year since 2002, and has said that these reforms -- that reforming the system is needed.

when we get from raising, and i am not dismissing the fica and the other stuff we share that, so, yesmany of them are doing just that, fine. and i am not proposing they pay through the nose, i am proposing that everyone who lives in this country pay something for the privilege. that does not mean a ton of money but everyone has a vested interest in the future of this country. period. >>guest: so, again, you are stating a philosophical position. >>neil: that is economic reality. this train can't keep going. it is run by fat cats and that cannot go. >>guest: you were saying it is not a tax increase if you talked about increasing taxes on people making less than $70,000 a year, that is a tax increase. >>neil: okay, then, we can get past this and just say, before we argue in the name, i am saying first, make sure that everyone pays something. the rich should pay more. and in a progressive tax system that is the way it goes, you can argue whether it is more than they presently pay but everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone pays for the right to live in a great country like there and it cou

>> i am certainly in favor of extending for another year the fica tax holiday, and better to do that than not, and the republican position was we'd rather have it paid for with less spending, but obama doesn't want to do that. we have to fight obama and his spending in this next election. that's what the next election is going to be about. >> let's look at the democratic side and a ranking member of the budget committee was on meet the press yesterday. let me play it for you. >> if you have a strict austerity policy right now, it will send our economy into a downward spiral. we will lose the gains we've made. >> there is a concern that we're just seeing the economy start to show signs of improvement and severe cuts could damage that. what about that? >> that would make more sense if the recovery had not come about after we stopped the additional stimulus. remember, obama threw $800 billion of stimulus spending on the table, all the solyndra corruption money that went out, that ended after two years. in 2011, the president tried to get another $400 billion of solyndra stimulus spendin

the extra revenue needed to fix the funding gap in 2036 can be achieved by raising the fica tax cap oninking ship right now. i think i can better save from my own retirement". robert writes "i'm going to retire within the next 10 years or so. that shouldn't be enough time to screw up an reneglect on the promise that was implied as i paid into the system all these years." nate in north carolina "social security? what's that? a card with a nine-digit number? i've heard older people talk about it but when i asked them about what it is they say don't worry about it." if you want more go to cnn.com/cafferty file or to our face on the facebook situation room page. >> thanks, jack, so much. >>> news just into the situation room on the death of a baseball hall of famer. let's go to lisa sylvester. lisa. >> reporter: hi there, candy. that's right. we are hearing that baseball hall of famer gary carter that he has died of brain cancer. he played in the big leagues for 19 years as a catcher for the expos, mets, giants and dodgers. he was just 57 years old. he had been battling brain cancer. candy

but the amount that is contributed by the fica taxes for those for medicare is not capped.00,000, that person today is paying every year about $7,200 in just the medicare trust fund, where someone is making a maximum on the social tree with holding, $106,000, they are paying a little less than $1,600 into the medicare trust fund. we already have a progressive way for those who are more well- off paying for their benefits when they retire. secondly, we changed the law on medicare part b in 2007. that has already been pointed out by chairman baucus. we already have a part b premium increase for those who make over $85,000, starting at 35% and going up to 80%. we are already asking those who were retired who have more income to pay more. lastly, in the affordable care act, we put in an additional surtax for higher income payers starting in 2013. we have gone to the source three times. there is a big difference between someone who is currently earning taxable income over a million dollars and someone who is retired who has an $80,000 income. there is a big difference here. i th

people paying fica. that is people making less than $6,000. that is an important thing to do for us to keep this economy growing. i'm for that. i was for it in december. i'm for it in february. i'm glad we are going to have consensus on that today. but what i am not for -- let me go on because in addition to that, we are playing a silly little game. with the doctors and with medicare patients, and this silly little games pretends we are going to extend s.g.r. for 10 months. that's balo nmbs ey and everybody knows it -- baloney and everybody knows it. we are going to extend s.g.r. over and over and over again. we should have done it permanently in this bill. we should have done it permanently in the congress which i was the majority leader. we should have done that. i yield myself two additional minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. hoyer: so with respect to s.g.r. ladies and gentlemen, we are playing a game and the doctors all over this country and the medicare recipients all over this country know

people paying fica. that is people making less than $6,000. that is an important thing to do for us to keep this economy growing. i'm for that. i was for it in december. i'm for it ifebruary. i'm glad we are going to have consens on that today. but what i am not for -- let me go on because in addition to that, we are playing a silly little game. with the doctors a with medicare patients, and this silly little games pretends we are going to extend s.g.r. for 10 months. that's balo nmbs ey and everybody knows it -- baloney and everybody knows it. we are going to extend s.g.r. over and over and over again. we should have done it permanently in this bill. we should have done it permanently in the congress which i was the majority leader. we should have done that. i yield self two additional minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. hoyer: so with respect to s.g.r. ladies and gentlemen, we are playing a game and the doctors all over this country and the medicare recipients all over this country know we're pl

>> i well i think that some of the things, you know, i'm not against the reduction in fica payments.009, reduction in the fico payments would have had a huge impact. now, a lot less of an impact. et cetera, et cetera. in other words, if the focus had been -- look at the stimulus bill. a trillion dollars down the drain. why? because instead of building you know, instead of building things, instead of quote shovel-ready that weren't shovel-ready. what did we do? we extended the ability of unemployment to 99 weeks. 99 weeks? wow. that is a disincentive for an awful lot of other people to be working. we gave the cities and the states more money to hire people they didn't need. >> although a lot of that money went to pay for teachers and police officers to keep them on. at least for the first year. after that it kind of dropped away. >> and you're suggesting to me that the day before there was riots in the streets? i don't think so. so the point is, we, there wasn't people screaming, we need more policeman, we need more teachers. >> but we would have lay off and furloughed a lot of the ex

but the amount that is contributed by the fight the taxes -- fica taxes for medicare is not capped. if a person makes $100,000, they are paying into the medicare trust fund, whereas someone who is making the maximum on the social security withholding, $106,000, is paying little less than $1,600 into the medicare trust fund. so, we already have a progressive way for those who are more well-off paying for their benefits when they retire. secondly, we changed the law on medicare part b in 2007. that has already been pointed out by chairman baucus. we have an increase starting at 35% and going up to 80%. that is already in law. and lastly, in the affordable care act, we put in an additional surtax going to 2013. i must tell you, in response to senator kyl, there is a big difference between someone who is earning taxable income over $1 million and someone who is retired to has an $80,000 income. there is a big difference here. i think we would acknowledge that difference. the last point i would make is this. medicare part b is a voluntary. the more we put these types of payment structure

people paying fica. that is people making less than $6,000. that is an important thing to do for us to keep this economy growing. i'm for that. i was for it in december. i'm for it in february. i'm glad we are going to have consensus on that today. but what i am not for -- let me go on because in addition to that, we are playing a silly little game. with the doctors and with medicare patients, and this silly little games pretends we are going to extend s.g.r. for 10 months. that's balo nmbs ey and everybody knows it -- baloney and everybody knows it. we are going to extend s.g.r. over and over and over again. we should have done it permanently in this bill. we should have done it permanently in the congress which i was the majority leader. we should have done that. i yield myself two additional minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. hoyer: so with respect to s.g.r. ladies and gentlemen, we are playing a game and the doctors all over this country and the medicare recipients all over this country know