LEE KRAMER'S ROOM: With Views

[dukeb]

A "means test" has been part of the SS discussion for quite a while.

When I first started my first business decades ago, my accountant's advice was to take as little money in salary as possible without drawing the ire of the IRS. That's the money on which SS and Medicare are taxed. As far back as the early 1980s he was of the opinion that SS either wouldn't exist or would be means tested.