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Biden’s Plan to Avert Medicare Funding Crisis Includes Tax Hikes on High Earners
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WASHINGTON—President Biden’s coming budget blueprint will propose extending the solvency of a key Medicare trust fund by at least 25 years, according to the White House, in part by increasing tax rates on people earning more than $400,000 a year.
The plan would raise Medicare taxes to 5% from 3.8% for those top earners and effectively expand the reach of the tax so it applies to business income as well as investments, wages and self-employment income. Mr. Biden would also redirect some existing taxes from the government’s general fund to a Medicare fund. The Medicare program provides health insurance for adults 65 and older, as well as some younger people with disabilities.
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