Would you call this waging war on seniors?

[Doctor Steuss]

What percent of our income tax goes to SSI benefits? Is social security tax still around 10% of our income?

For employee income tax, it's still the same rate it's been since 1990. 6.2%. The only thing that's changed is the base, which for 2022 is $147,000 (which, incidentally, is a lower year-over-year increase than any fiscal year under the Trump presidency).

[Res Ipsa]

What percent of our income tax goes to SSI benefits? Is social security tax still around 10% of our income?

For employee income tax, it's still the same rate it's been since 1990. 6.2%. The only thing that's changed is the base, which for 2022 is $147,000 (which, incidentally, is a lower year-over-year increase than any fiscal year under the Trump presidency).

Total FICA tax for an employee is 6.2% of gross income.

Because of deficit spending, computing SSI expenses as a percentage of only income tax would be misleading. Total SSI payments in 2020 represented about 1.5% of total federal spending.

Correction: .8% of total federal spending; 3.5% of discretionary spending.

[Doctor Steuss]

For employee income tax, it's still the same rate it's been since 1990. 6.2%. The only thing that's changed is the base, which for 2022 is $147,000 (which, incidentally, is a lower year-over-year increase than any fiscal year under the Trump presidency).

Total FICA tax for an employee is 6.2% of gross income.

Doesn't FICA include Medicare tax? If so, I think that would bump total FICA to 7.65%.

Because of deficit spending, computing SSI expenses as a percentage of only income tax would be misleading. Total SSI payments in 2020 represented about 1.5% of total federal spending.

Thank you. In my haste to torpedo low hanging fruit, I not only misinterpreted the question, but also took to answering it lazily (and, admittedly, embarrassingly shallowly).

[Res Ipsa]

Total FICA tax for an employee is 6.2% of gross income.

Doesn't FICA include Medicare tax? If so, I think that would bump total FICA to 7.65%.

Oops. You are correct. I should have said Social Security and not FICA.