text:  Yeah, and that's the point I was getting to is they cut the rate and the government collected more. So the amount of money they actually got was more. Let's go back to Social Security because you raise an interesting question, and that is neither one offered how do we solve this problem, although Joe Biden talked about uncapping the amount of taxes that are paid because right now I hadn't even remembered the most recent number. It was apparently you pay Social Security taxes up to $170,000 in income, and then above that you don't pay anything.