Next time they get the chance that cap WILL be eliminated.
Only way to prop-up a failing Social Security system.
And it will be popular with the vast majority who don’t earn high incomes and don’t understand why every penny should be taxed like theirs is.
And as we know, somewhere about 47% of people don’t pay any federal income tax at all. So for those people, they won’t complain if the income taxes they don’t pay in the first place, are increased for those who do pay them.