Re your editorial "Social Security: Chaffetz plan would save program" (Our View, Nov. 17):

Rep. Jason Chaffetz' plan to "save" Social Security by cutting benefits is misguided. Social Security is not in trouble. It is safe for the next 25 years.

But to improve it, let's scrap the cap, under which only the first $110,100 in earnings are taxed. Then those who earn more will pay the same "flat tax" (so beloved by some of Chaffetz' compatriots) on their wages as everyone at lower levels do.

A plan to do that was introduced in Congress in September. It would apply the Social Security tax from $250,000 and up, with a non-taxed "doughnut hole" between the current cap and $250,000 until the gradual yearly increases eliminate the hole.

This is a much better way to "save" Social Security. It addresses the great disparity that now exists where those earning under $110,100, those who can least afford it, pay a much greater percentage of their wages toward Social Security than do those earning more than the cap.

Encourage Congress to pass this bill so that everyone will pay a fair share, instead of increasing the burden on Social Security recipients.

Linda DeSimone

Park City