Fiscal

MarketWatch: Taxing stocks, estates and benefits floated to shore up Social Security

MarketWatch reports that Social Security could reach insolvency in about six years and that ideas under discussion include taxes on stocks, estates and employee benefits, beyond raising payroll taxes.

MarketWatch column says “math is math”: tax cuts mean Social Security, Medicare cuts

A MarketWatch piece argues that reducing taxes would require cutting Social Security and Medicare, framing the issue as simple arithmetic and not partisan politics.