{"id":3419,"date":"2012-09-05T15:59:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T20:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2012-09-05T16:01:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T21:01:24","slug":"u-s-house-candidates-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=3419","title":{"rendered":"U. S. House Candidates Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APblack.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-644\" title=\"APblack\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APblack-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Democratic U.S. House candidate Pam Gulleson says one way to bolster Social Security is to raise the tax cap on wages.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now, a person pays Social Security taxes on his or her first $110,100 of income. At a debate in Bismarck on Wednesday, Gulleson said one way to help the system&#8217;s financial outlook is to raise the cap.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gulleson didn&#8217;t say what she thought the new cap should be. Some members of Congress have suggested abolishing the cap.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Republican House candidate Kevin Cramer says he would support raising Social Security&#8217;s retirement age and putting a &#8220;means test&#8221; on benefits &#8211; so wealthier people would get smaller Social Security payments.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gulleson says she doesn&#8217;t favor means testing.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The debate was sponsored by the North Dakota Broadcasters Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Democratic U.S. House candidate Pam Gulleson says one way to bolster Social Security is to raise the tax cap on wages. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now, a person pays Social Security taxes on his or her first $110,100 of income. At a debate in Bismarck on Wednesday, Gulleson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3421,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions\/3421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}