Cuts to SS and Medicare

[Lesh]

I disagree. The cap is at $127k. That isn’t rich. You’d simply be putting it on those who are among the most taxed people and make them pay even more for the same benefit as someone making the median wage. IMO the only fair way is everyone pay more by raising the tax by a point or two. SS is an individually earned benefit. Not a general fund.

I make less than $127k. I pay social security tax on every penny I make.

They should do so also

 

[Hutch Starskey]

It takes what it takes. SS has worked well for 80-years.
Raising the cap is a nothingburger. Let the pigs squeal

Yep… people making over $127k are pigs. Are the problem.

That’s the household income of two wage earners earning the median.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

I make less than $127k. I pay social security tax on every penny I make.

They should do so also

For the same benefit?
Why?

 

[WorldWatcher]

The cap is like $127k. I don’t consider that rich by any measure. SS is an individual benefit.

The “rich” liberals wish would pay a fairer share are the ultra wealthy and corps who often get over. Not the 1% which begins at $570k but the fractional rich who make hundreds of millions or billions.

Technical correction, the 2023 cap is $160K.

WW

 

[Hutch Starskey]

Ok, so no one is for the middle class. BOTH parties are whores for their wealthy donors.

Technical correction, the 2023 cap is $160K.

WW

Thanks but the point remains the same. That is not rich.

 

[WorldWatcher]

Thanks but the point remains the same. That is not rich.

It was a correction of the amount, not concept.

WW

 

[g5000]

And the drop in demand happened thanks to the stupid Facui/CCP model of economic shutdown by freaked out libs

It happened because of MILLIONS of deaths around the world.

You dolts live in a bizarre alternate reality.
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[Aldo Raine]

All the states shut down partially at first because the “experts” wete demanding it

But libs didnt want the shutdown to ever end and the battle was between repubs trying to reopen and libs resisting

So once again admitting what absolute betas the Rethugikkkons are. Thank you so much.

 

[Aldo Raine]

You are just ranting and hurling childish insults

I am speaking to a child so yeah kinda.

 

[Markle]

It takes what it takes. SS has worked well for 80-years.
Raising the cap is a nothingburger. Let the pigs squeal

How is this working well?

 

[Mac-7]

I am speaking to a child so yeah kinda.

You are the child

Dont blame your rude and low intellect behavior on others

 

[Grumblenuts]

The cap is like $127k. I don’t consider that rich by any measure.

I disagree. The cap is at $127k. That isn’t rich. You’d simply be putting it on those who are among the most taxed people and make them pay even more for the same benefit as someone making the median wage.

No one said $127k was rich. It's just the weird place they've decided to stop charging all those who make more income. Remove the cap and everyone pays the same, gets the same. With a cap those who make less PAY MORE in terms of what they make overall FOR THE SAME BENEFIT!
Why TF would you make poorer people pay a higher proportion of their income to gain the same "security" the super rich enjoy?

 

[Aldo Raine]

You are the child

Dont blame your rude and low intellect behavior on others

Nope, it is you that blames Dims for shutdowns in Rethugikkkon controlled states you NO intellect rube!

 

[Mac-7]

Nope, it is you that blames Dims for shutdowns in Rethugikkkon controlled states you NO intellect rube!

Even in the red states it was the drmocrat ruled cities who were the worst offenders of shutdown mania

I can forgive a few months of panic because the experts were predicting 10’s of millions of deaths in America alone

Thats sobering news, but it wasnt true

Libs are the sole cause of the economic turmoil that has taken place since the chinese virus scare

 

[Aldo Raine]

Even in the red states it was the drmocrat ruled cities who were the worst offenders of shutdown mania

I can forgive a few months of panic because the experts were predicting 10’s of millions of deaths in America alone

Thats sobering news, but it wasnt true

Libs are the sole cause of the economic turmoil that has taken place since the chinese virus scare

Why did those Beta Rethugikkkons let that happen. What you are saying is bullshit.

 

[Ralph Norton]

Remove the cap and everyone pays the same

This is, by definition, false.

 

[Mac-7]

Why did those Beta Rethugikkkons let that happen. What you are saying is bullshit.

What you are saying is uninformed

 

[Aldo Raine]

What you are saying is uninformed

So the Rethugikkkon controlled states did NOT shutdown? You sure about that?

 

[Mac-7]

So the Rethugikkkon controlled states did NOT shutdown? You sure about that?

The red states shut down only briefly as I’m sure you know

 

[kyzr]

How is this working well?

Social Security has ALWAYS paid the promised benefits to those who earned them, correct? The discussion is on "fixing" SS, NOT the Fed Budget/spending.