There should be no tough choices here, it should only be about removing that stupid cap.
Notwithstanding but it's really damn stupid that my middle class ass stops paying into social security before the end of the year while the working class subsidizes me.
Keep in mind that Social Security retirement benefits depend on your contributions. So by capping the amount you contribute, Social Security also caps the amount you will receive.
I had no idea there was even a cap, that's ridiculous. I don't know a single middle class person IRL that earns enough individually to hit that cap though, so it is probably a bit regional since that cap feels like it would be awfully low in SV or a high COL city.
While I agree the cap needs to be removed. The cap is only stopping you from subsidizing more of the working class. They are not subsidizing you. The payout is also capped. You're effectively paying a portion of your contribution to boost the payout of multiple other people who contributed less during their careers
The way I see it, sure it's capped, but I work a pretty good, white collar job, I'm going to statistically live longer than my blue collar peers drawing more over time and end of the day. I'm going to get a whole lot more out than the average blue collar worker and end result is that the working class is going and are subsidizing those rich people who are living longer putting that drain on resources.
That's just the way i see it.
“We’re going to have to have some hard decisions.
Really? For a Repub these are easy choices, boot straps plebs, boot straps
“We’re going to have to have some hard decisions. We got to bring the Democrats in to talk about Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare. There’s hundreds of billions of dollars to be saved, and we know how to do it, we just have to have the stomach to actually take those challenges on,”
Or, hear me out... stop letting private healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry charge insane prices?
Billions of DOLLARS to be saved, millions of LIVES to be sacrificed.
Mammon is hungry
What about the poor shareholders? Are you not thinking of them? Or how about the executives and their yachts? How are they going to afford all their hookers and blow?
Trump supporters in a couple of years: “He’s not hurting the people he needs to be”
They'll say it not knowing, or believing, conservatives are hurting the people they see the need to hurt which are 90-something percent of people in this country.
Only if Republicans convince 7 Democratic Senators to help them reach the 60 needed to gut Social Security.
Which won't happen.
Not exactly. If they craft it as a budget bill, all they need is 50.
You are referring to "reconciliation", which cannot be filibustered.
Reconciliation can be used for the regular budget, but changes to Social Security are explicitly prohibited.
Oh good, there's a rule in place to stop republicans. I can now rest easy.
The only way to gut Social Security unilaterally would be to nuke the filibuster, and Thune said he won't do that.
Probably because he knows that if he did, then the next time Democrats hold a trifecta they will use it to enact a far more progressive version of Social Security. And unilaterally gutting Social Security would very likely give Democrats that trifecta in 2028.
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