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Mitt Romney calls for taxing the rich to fund Social Security

By Ross O'Keefe
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Multimillionaire and former Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney believes the wealthy need to pay more in taxes to fund the doomed Social Security Trust Fund.

Romney wrote an op-ed in the New York Times published Friday advocating several ways to tax the rich more in order to fund the Social Security trust, which is bound to run out of money in 2034.

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