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>The biggest earners minimize their salaries, favoring already lower-taxed dividends, share options and other vehicles that don't attract payroll taxes.

What kind of dividends do you think think that Alex Rodriguez or Lebron James get?

Yes, there are ways to avoid payroll taxes, but I can tell you first hand that the IRS is vigilant in its enforcement.
You'd be hard pressed to find a CEO of a Fortune 500 company with a base salary of under $1million.

To say that lifting the FICA limit will hit small business owners hardest is just wrong.

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>Also check out the behavior of US corporations limiting their taxes in multiple jurisdictions by faking head offices in places like Ireland. E.g. Apple has just been slapped by the EU for underpaying $20B in European taxes by positioning a head office in Ireland that doesn't even have any staff. $20B may not be much against the gigantic US deficits that have been allowed to build up, but every billion helps if it's paid at home rather than sending it off on a crazy Rube Goldberg international tax ride.
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>>>Sorry, but blaming granny, who started working when a day's hospital stay cost $350, for not adequately funding today's insane medical costs, just won't fly.
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>You'd better google "superannuation Australia" after you google "Clinton Health Plan 1993" to confirm that her goal of universal care was systematically blocked (which was Victor's original contention you objected to.)
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From wikipedia:

"The president had campaigned heavily on health care in the 1992 presidential election. The task force was created in January 1993, but its own processes were somewhat controversial and drew litigation. Its goal was to come up with a comprehensive plan to provide universal health care for all Americans, which was to be a cornerstone of the administration's first-term agenda. A major health care speech was delivered by the president to the US Congress in September 1993. The core element of the proposed plan was an enforced mandate for employers to provide health insurance coverage to all of their employees."

I questioned (or at least I thought I did) the notion that she had proposed allowing all people to participate in Medicare.
AKA single payor.
As I read the above, she wasn't doing that.
I favor the single payor idea, as did Nancy Pelose when ACA first appeared.
Obama caved on that idea to placate insurers and we have the current mess.