Do you support raising the SS cap?

[The Duke]

Yes, this would fix the problem.

And create whole new ones.

Do you support slavery? Do you support wrecking the economy?

All brilliant ideas in the same mold.

Do you support a regressive tax? That's cool.

The FICA tax is a regressive tax no matter how you slice it, since its a flat rate.

[The Duke]

It makes more sense to means test benefits than raise the cap, because as Dazzleman said raising the cap makes SS a welfare program.

In any case, we're going to realize eventually that crisis or not, our system is levying high taxes and yielding low returns.  Any move to raise taxes or lower returns only exagerates this problem, it doesn't solve it.