Is your salary less than $160,200? If so, you’re among the 94 percent of American workers who pay into Social Security all year long. Thanks to a loophole that exclusively benefits the affluent, income above that amount simply isn’t taxed for Social Security. That means someone like Tucker Carlson, who makes a reported $8 million a year, stopped contributing More

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