1.   Increasing the contribution rate is not the answer to gaining mass membership to the Party.

2.   If the change in dividend credits creates an imbalance in the fund, the actuary may suggest an increase in the contribution rate.

3.   Congress might want to subsidize movement of teachers from states whose pension contribution rates are low to those where they are high, and make other adjustments.

4.   Massachusetts has the highest unemployment-tax contribution rate in the country behind Rhode Island, the paper said.

5.   The commission members who opposed privatization wanted to underpin the solvency of the Social Security trust fund by raising contribution rates.

6.   There is no need to make major cuts in promised benefits or to make major increases in contribution rates.