This is the correct take away. They’re using it to fund further tax cuts to the wealthy.

Two wealthy billionaire immigrants hired to pilfer American livelihood because the Government borrowed and bet from our Social Security— and lost the money. Now they see no other way out of insolvency.

Certainly Elon and Vivek aren’t going to start paying their fair share of taxes, so it’s steal from the poor and give to the rich.

All rich people steal. This is nothing new.

Oh, I'm trying to find the video of the cartoon where the bad guy is using a hostage as a shield and he's perfectly moving them around to track the good guys gun. Was it Venture Brothers?

Yeah, he's a real piece of shit

You wouldn't hit a guy holding a kid, would you?

We’re starving and CEOs are back on the menu.

Go ahead and dare and then die angrily in a gutter just like they want you to. Americans don't do shit about anything.

Taxing billionaires makes sense and would work well to solve all sorts of problems. But the billionaires own the government and the politicians.

I love the idea of the "austerity" of billionaires being cut down to size and having to live on "only" $999 million as Bernie proposed - tax anything over that at 100%.

Like anyone will even care about what’s happening to them?

Just look at recent surveys, where economic sentiment is basically political opinion now, not how people are actually fairing: https://www.axios.com/2024/12/06/trump-economy-democrats-republicans-inflation

The metric was not like that before.

But we are in an era where influencers, feeds and whims trump reality and fact. I thought COVID-19 proved that, but it’s pretty much irrefutable now, and people (on average) are going to care less about what’s physically taken away than how some angry influencer makes them feel about it.

Riot supplies? Class war matériels you mean.

Where's Mario Mangione to take care of the problem?

Good luck with that under the Orange Idiotn and his shit chugging sycophants. As a disabled person who needs SSDI to live, I'd join that lawsuit in a nanosecond.

Imminent domain and civil asset forfeiture are the government stealing your shit and telling you to get fucked. You think it won't be the same for social security?

The fact that this implies that they are comparable to the Vandals, Vikings, or Mongols is an insult said ancient raiders and pillagers.

He’s even posing for pictures with his kid. The only one dumb enough still to not fucking hate him.

Oh, the child has nothing to do with posing, he's just afraid for his life since the UHC CEO got shot and hopes having a child around is a detriment

Why not? You've presumably been paying into a system your whole working life that is going to be stolen from you. You don't know how to feel about that?

The writing has been on the wall for a while now. All retirement planning I've done is based on the assumption that SSA won't be around by the time I retire. The fact that we can't even remove the taxable maximum to retain some degree of financial solvency is proof enough.

I think the most likely course of action is that we will get some portion of our contributions back, but not the full amount. I just hope that they don't raise the retirement age so much to try to retain the illusion of being able to get a full payout. I'd rather get a fraction of my contributions back at 67 than need to risk living to a much older age but receiving full benefits.

Depends, what's your net worth?

We all know they will just blame the left somehow.