g5000
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I'd be ok with tax credits for various middle class "give backs" if it was revenue neutral.
"Revenue neutral" is just another way of saying that someone else would be forced to pay for the cost of those tax credits. "Revenue neutral" is a smokescreen phrase for wealth redistribution, pure and simple.
I'd be willing to say we need serious soc sec and medicare reform if we even wanted to contemplate them, but the fact is Obama came to the bargaining table at least twice with compromises on those programs only to have the tea party threaten to eviscerate Boehner if he compromised even a little.
I believe we should raise the Social Security and Medicare eligibility ages to 70, and index to 9 percent of the population going forward.
We are living decades longer than our ancestors who established Social Security. We should be working longer than they did.
Common sense.