How am I supposed to pay the nanny?

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Social Security tax increase - Brief Article

"S.S. Option: raise tax cap. Increasing Social Security tax on wealthiest could raise billions" reads a four-column headline at the top of the front page of the Charleston Gazette. Even though eliminating the $95,000 cap on income subject to the Social Security tax could keep the system solvent for another 75 years, I have not seen such a headline in The New York Times or The Washington Post. A recent headline in the Sunday Style section of the Times helps explain why: "Six figures? Not Enough." It seems that a hundred-thousand dollar salary no longer equals serious success to...