Closing Social Security's funding gap through payroll tax hike would cost the median worker $2,600–$3,000 more a year

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Each segment shows the additional annual payroll tax owed if Congress closed Social Security's funding gap through a payroll tax rate increase alone, using the Social Security Trustees' (16.65 percent), Cato's (17.04 percent), and CBO's (17.31 percent) rate estimates.