Well, actually, if they would just raise the income level cut off that is exempt from SS contribution, it is perfectly sustainable.
But you just can't tax rich people or they won't give you campaign contributions.
if you like your social security.....
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But you just can't tax rich people or they won't give you campaign contributions.
badlatitude
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Congress has waited way too long to implement change. The chance of doing anything about Social Security should have happened before Boomers started retiring. Nothing is impossible of course, but extremely doubtful because the Boomers have too much influence.
Sol Rosenberg
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The Best Americans want all of it and more. That’s why they work so hard to divide us. They are the true entitlement class and will not stop until the pitchforks come out.
Steam Flyer
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You forgot the part where they blame Democrats
Ah yes. that too
SloopJonB
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Here you go moron.
Look at the periods of Republicunt POTUSES VS Dem.
If you can't see it you're even more stupid than people say you are.
Mrleft8
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I'm not sure that graph really shows what you are hoping it shows.
Sol Rosenberg
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Buht the M&Ms!
Buht whut bathroom does that person use?
Buht whut bathroom does that person use?
Cal20sailor
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I'd be shocked if you could recite the alphabet and/or count to ten.
SloopJonB
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????? WTF Lefty?
It shows the economy doing well under the Dems and plummeting after a bit under the R's.
Repeatedly since Bush the Greater. Particularly the plummet to negative 3.4% during the Trump boom the moron referred to.
Also shows the plummet to the negative 2.6% that Bush the Lesser left that Obama had to clean up.
Also shows the positive 5.7% that Joe has achieved - highest in 30 years.
But he's the worst POTUS - ever.
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Republicans' plans to slash Social Security and Medicare are becoming clearer: 'We have no choice... |
Reports suggest that concessions Rep. Kevin McCarthy made to secure his Speaker seat involved promoting cuts to entitlement programs.Kent Nishimura House Republicans have alluded to cuts they want to make to the federal budget for months.
They're becoming more explicit about those cuts involving Medicare and Social Security funds.
They've indicated that they're willing to leverage raising the debt ceiling to secure cuts. Not raising the ceiling could spell financial disaster.
After being evasive about their plans for entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare in the months leading up to midterms, the House GOP has begun to confirm its intention to cut spending on both.
That's according to The Washington Post's Tony Romm, who reported that Republican lawmakers are willing to use the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip in order to get the Biden administration to cave on spending cuts to Medicare and Social Security. Failing to raise the debt ceiling by the summer could cause the US to default on its debt for the first time in history, the consequences of which would be dire.
"We have no choice but to make hard decisions," Rep. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, leader of the conservative Republican Study Committee, told The Post. "Everybody has to look at everything."
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The White House, and Democratic lawmakers, have criticized the GOP using the debt limit to implement cuts to Medicare and Social Security.
"They claim their plan to use the debt ceiling to trigger global economic chaos is about fiscal responsibility. It's not," Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote in a Boston Globe op-ed this month. "The House Republican plan for the debt ceiling is about protecting the wealthy and the well-connected from paying their fair share in taxes — nothing more and nothing less."
Link - https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-plans-slash-social-security-103000327.html
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The rest of us know that there are other ways to achieve these goals. This is suicide for Republicans, and they are about to learn that it isn’t worth it.
The fault lines on SS have been in place for a long time. I use to be much more doom and gloom but it seems pretty obvious now how they're going to play it out. The 'end' of the trust fund isn't the end of the programs - it's an automatic reduction in services.
Medicare and SS aren't going anywhere, under any plan.
The default plan seems to be to let the program reduction auto-triggers kick in and then the government "rescues the system" by back filling it with some version of means-tested benefits. That expands other entitlement program meaning more government jobs and involvement. That's also means tested so they get to cheer they're screwing the 'billionaires'. That's a big win for politicians and in the mean time, they can wring their hands like it's "oh noes!"
Who says you can't cut a baby in half. Sure ya can.
Medicare and SS aren't going anywhere, under any plan.
The default plan seems to be to let the program reduction auto-triggers kick in and then the government "rescues the system" by back filling it with some version of means-tested benefits. That expands other entitlement program meaning more government jobs and involvement. That's also means tested so they get to cheer they're screwing the 'billionaires'. That's a big win for politicians and in the mean time, they can wring their hands like it's "oh noes!"
Who says you can't cut a baby in half. Sure ya can.
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The best part about your post is that you spent so much of your life putting it together
“Suggest … allude “
Followed by commie subversive bull shit slurpy mental soup for loinfomofo’z
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Getting restless waiting for your advanced psychotropics? I could rehash the evidence for my concerns, but that will mean educating you all over again. I resist losing propositions like that, but I will be there for the old ‘I told you so’ later.
Steam Flyer
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When a Trump supporter demands that you provide "facts" to support your political position, he's really just trying to waste your time and make you angry. If they gave half a shit about facts, they wouldn't even be Republicans much less Trump supporters.
Mrleft8
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I still can't understand why working class people think that the republicans are on their side. Tax cuts/dodges for millionaires/billionaires does not, no how, no way benefit any working class family.
Slashing environmental funds is not helping working class families. Cutting school meal programs doesn't help working families. opposing clean energy projects does not help poor people. Cutting medicaid/medicare doesn't help anyone except pharmaceutical companies, giant "health care" companies, private for profit hospitals, lawyers, and funeral homes.
Slashing environmental funds is not helping working class families. Cutting school meal programs doesn't help working families. opposing clean energy projects does not help poor people. Cutting medicaid/medicare doesn't help anyone except pharmaceutical companies, giant "health care" companies, private for profit hospitals, lawyers, and funeral homes.
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This is PA at present.
