U.S. Rep. Reid Ribble, R-Wis., said on Friday that his proposed changes to Social Security were necessary to save it.
Ribble, of Appleton, had proposed several changes to the program that he, along with more than 50 other Republicans, have suggested be conditions of any long-term increase of the federal debt ceiling.
Besides expanding the raising of the retirement age, he said he also wants to change the inflation formula for calculating future growth, and add means-testing to determine benefits for high-income recipients.
He said he wants to raise the wage cap for payroll taxes to levels that would subject...
