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In reply to the discussion: Pay attention, please. This is your money, not an entitlement. [View all]gulliver
(13,225 posts)6. Republicans don't respect workers, the source of pay-as-you-go Social Security
Republican oldsters need to start looking at those young people they currently shortchange. Every time a Republican cuts funding for education, healthcare, or nutrition they are cutting the future funding of Social Security and Medicare. It isn't just that Republicans want to cut Social Security and Medicare. They want to underfund its future by stunting the wage growth of the young and standing in the way of legal immigration. This is a "reap what you sow" double whammy that comes from the Republican Party.
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It's deferred income, and therefore earned income. That's why we pay taxes on it.
Gaugamela
Jul 2022
#13
We should be framing those as retroactive tax hikes on the middle and lower class.
plimsoll
Jul 2022
#20
It absolutely IS AN ENTITLEMENT, because it's your money, and you're entitled to it...........
W T F
Jul 2022
#22
Too alarmist. President Biden would veto any reduction in social spending.
totodeinhere
Jul 2022
#25