Next: Raise the cap on SS. nt

[grahamhgreen]

[Ilsa]

1. I like it. nt

[nenagh]

2. Watching CNN, the push is to get the President to lead the budget negotiation.

Their message seems to push the meme that only the President can successfully negotiate a budget deal.

Are the Republicans trying to maneuver Pres Obama into taking the blame if 'entitlement programs' are changed? and just prior to 2014 elections?

[Cleita]

3. And this time really put it in AL Gore's lock box so that all

this talk about chained CPIs and other assaults on what is the only retirement security a majority of seniors have goes away.

[Laelth]

4. I say eliminate the cap altogether.

Those who derive the most benefit from this society should pay the most for its maintenance.

-Laelth

[Dawgs]

5. Yes. Beyond time to go after the rich.

[Laelth]

8. Agreed.

Even the notoriously backward and neo-liberal IMF is calling for higher taxes on the rich.

http://aliran.com/15319.html

If the IMF is calling for the rich to carry a heavier burden in the maintenance of nation-states, you know this argument has already been won. The United States, of course, is behind the curve and slow to catch up, but higher taxes for the rich are coming, I think. Supply-side economics has failed. It appears that the rest of the world knows it.

-Laelth

[truebluegreen]

11. Even better.

And how about extending it to ALL forms of income? If we did that, we could lower the percentage even after giving recipients a raise.

Added bonus: boy, would that tie rich knickers in a knot.

[Dawgs]

6. And raise minimum wage to $10.25. n/t

[Laelth]

9. I'm shooting for $15.00/hr., but I'd settle for $10.25/hr., for the time being. n/t

-Laelth

[Orsino]

7. Using which House Speaker? n/t

[rurallib]

10. while Repubs work to eliminate SS

or drastically raise the age