The reality is that not taxing one revenue source means other revenue sources must be taxed more. It’s math.
If we had an honest government, I could accept a combination of tax increases and expenditure reductions until the debt was gone, but our politicians are making too small adjustments that are eventually eaten up by debt increases. This will eventually result in the tax payer having no money for himself and the government having it all and still no solution to the debt problem.
The point of the thread is AI lied or was wrong. AI even admitted it. READ THE TRANSCRIPT.
Where I live there was a possible tax on part of your SS. This would be if you were drawing SS & still working for wages. It wasn’t a lot, DEPENDING on your total income. Now I’m retired & living TOTALLY on SS, so no income tax. Do some states tax SS even if that’s all you live on?