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Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P by pauldino on Friday August 05, 2011 @09:44PM (#2852604)
The Medicare portion of FICA isn't capped, only social security is.
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Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P by veyron on Friday August 05, 2011 @11:17PM (#2852843)
Why aren't capital gains assessed medicare tax?
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Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P by Vivtek on Friday August 05, 2011 @11:43PM (#2852915)
People with capital gains don't want to pay for healthier poor people.
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