Nikki Haley wants to reform Social Security and Medicare. Donors are paying attention

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As she woos her party’s wealthy donors, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is promoting a policy that sets her apart from her closest competitors for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination: A willingness to stake out positions on the politically fraught issue of overhauling the nation’s entitlement programs.

In a recent Haley endorsement, Emily Seidel – a top official in the influential political network associated with billionaire Charles Koch – praised the former UN ambassador’s “courage” for advocating changes to “an entitlement system that makes promises it can’t keep.”

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“We need a complete reevaluation of entitlements,” Ken Langone, the billionaire co-founder of Home Depot who is weighing backing Haley, told CNN recently.

“What the hell is a guy like me (doing) getting $3,500 a month from the government?” Langone, whose net worth Forbes pegs at more than $7 billion, said of his monthly Social Security benefits. “That’s outrageous. I shouldn’t get a nickel.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nikki-haley-wants-reform-social-093037917.html

Well donate it to charity then you fucking shithead. Instead you're pocketing the money.

[Lunabell]

1. "Entitlement system"?!?!?!?

I paid for this motherfucking "entitlement system" and I would like it back in my retirement!!!!!!

[bucolic_frolic]

2. I think this means starve poor people, and give your paychecks to Wall Street

A lot of things don't make sense. Subsidies needed for food, for example. So much money goes up the income stream that poor people can't make ends meet. Capitalism is an incentivized system. Yet the incentives largely accrue to the top of the system.

[Johonny]

3. GOP has been claim social security will go bankrupt

Since I was born. Every date they've given passes by without social security going bankrupt. They're liars, always have been. The solution to any mowny flow problem is typically to raise the cap, but as usual, heaven forbid a rich person pay any taxes.

[brush]

4. Keep it up, Haley, or any other repug, including trump, about cutting SS entitlements...

and further erode you chances for election.

And btw, Social Security checks are EARNED BENEFITS that were deducted from recipients paychecks for decades. Again, EARNED BENEFITS that were deducted from recipients paychecks. Got it?

And we want that money back, as promised.

FYI: And haven't you heard, SS recipients are mostly older voters...YOUR VOTERS...get it?

Keep on alienating them. Please.

[Simeon Salus]

5. "Reform" equals "Loot"

simple translation. They want it all and they're coming for it.

[tinrobot]

6. It's not an "entitlement", it's insurance.

He gets $3500 because he paid into the system - like we all do.

And if he doesn't want the $3500, he can give it away.

[Jacson6]

7. The only thing that needs to be done with SS is...

Remove the annual income tax cap on the FICA taxes and also tax all income no matter the source.

[The Contrarian]

13. If the income tax cap is eliminated, should the benefits cap be removed as well?

n/t

[Jacson6]

14. No

The entire nation should support all people on Social Security. Millions of people depend upon it in their old age.

[Chainfire]

8. SS should be run by private companies for profit as God intended.

[gratuitous]

9. I'll bet we could fund these so-called entitlements in perpetuity

If we taxed all the income of overrich greedheads like Koch and Langone at the same rate we tax the person who takes tickets at the movie house.

[Liberal In Texas]

10. It won't be "reform," it will be privatization with corporate interests sucking funds out of the programs

and then claiming that benefits will have to be cut back because there isn't enough funds to pay the claims.

SS will be just fine when the limit on earnings cap is raised or just eliminated.

[senseandsensibility]

11. Reform is rightwing framing

and headlines should not be written this way.

[airplaneman]

12. What this guy really wants is to deny us getting $3,500 so he can get a $3.5 million tax break n/t0

[punchergirl]

15. SS payments have to be requested

Social security payments don’t automatically kick in. You have to contact the SSA and request the payments to start. So this guy is only receiving those payments because he requested it. So the real question he should be asking is “As a billionaire, why did I request these payments in the first place?”

[Jersey Devil]

16. This!

Didn't think of it but you're right on the button