{"id":103,"date":"2005-02-03T13:33:09","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T20:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=103"},"modified":"2005-02-03T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2005-02-03T20:33:09","slug":"a-little-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2005\/02\/a-little-number\/","title":{"rendered":"A little number"},"content":{"rendered":"

The President mentioned that the workers would get up to 4% of the SSA withholding to invest in private accounts. They currently contribute 7.5%, so GWB is proposing 4\/7.5 or 53.3% of their withholding to invest. See the numbers below to see where that fits in the scheme of things.<\/p>\n

I heard somewhere that some critics were saying this will reduce SSA benfits by 40%. By my calulations, that should only reduce bennies by 26.7%, since the employers contribution and 47% of the employees contribution are still going to the old SSA funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The President mentioned that the workers would get up to 4% of the SSA withholding to invest in private accounts. They currently contribute 7.5%, so GWB is proposing 4\/7.5 or 53.3% of their withholding to invest. See the numbers below to see where that fits in the scheme of things. I heard somewhere that some … Continue reading A little number<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-1F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}