Subject: RE: A Different Approach to Social Security
When you use the word decrease or increase with a percent, one is talking change from. Therefore, a 100% increase is the orginal plus itself again. If one is talking you will get 90% of something, then it is 90% of the original.
For example Social Secrutiy (OASI) targets 40% of ones wages as a benefit. This means you may get 40% of your pre tax wages.
If one says that OASI taxes must increase 100%. One is saying the tax rate currently at 10.3% would now be 20.6%.
