GOP Ready to Cut Social Security Medicare Medicaid to Pay for Tax Bill

[mitty14u2]

Heading Toward Tax Victory, Republicans Eye Next Step: Cut Spending

As the tax cut legislation passed by the Senate early Saturday hurtles toward final approval, Republicans are preparing to use the swelling deficits made worse by the package as a rationale to pursue their long-held vision: undoing the entitlements of the New Deal and Great Society, leaving government leaner and the safety net skimpier for millions of Americans.

Speaker Paul D. Ryan and other Republicans are beginning to express their big dreams publicly, vowing that next year they will move on to changes in Medicare and Social Security. President Trump told a Missouri rally last week, “We’re going to go into welfare reform.”

Their nearly $1.5 trillion package of tax cuts, a plan likely to win final approval in the coming days, could be the first step. But their strategy poses enormous risks, not only for millions of Americans who rely on entitlement programs, but also for Republicans who would wade into politically difficult waters, cutting popular benefits for the elderly and working poor just after cutting taxes for profitable corporations.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/02/us/politics/tax-cuts-republicans-entitlements-medicare-social-security.html

Mergers and Acquisitions IN THE UNITED STATES

https://imaa-institute.org/m-and-a-us-united-states/

Large Corporations that have Conglomerated pay the GOP to wipe out Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, Its on the Horizon.

[democratisphere]

1. Over our very dead bodies should this be allowed to happen.

[RKP5637]

3. It's time to march on Washington! n/t

[democratisphere]

6. Agreed. How many people will die from taking away their healthcare

through Medicare and Medicaid?

[RKP5637]

7. Hasn't the Trump Gestapo said something like protesting is not allowed, something like that ...

but that it's perfectly fine to beat up and maim protesters. God many Americans are stupid, they don't get it that their country has been taken over, being taken over, by a hostile regime wanting to instill a totalitarian state! Just how much bullshit are
Americans going to take!

[democratisphere]

8. I'm on drumpf BS overload, like the majority of Americans.

[RKP5637]

9. It's running in the streets here! The sewers are overloaded! n/t

[RKP5637]

2. More and more I really hate these F'ers. n/t

[Irish_Dem]

4. Maybe not risky for the GOP if they can rig elections with Putin's help. nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Every single person on Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid

who can leave the house, needs to occupy the offices of their Senators and Representatives.

I am on Social Security. It is, as was originally intended, one third of my income. My pension, which ought to be another third, got cut when my company declared bankruptcy and got out from under that obligation. I'm getting less than a third of what it should be, and is therefore about 8% of my current income.

I am fortunate enough to have savings and investments that make up the difference. But without SS I'll have to move in with my only son, who is currently in graduate school. At least he's not going to have to pay income tax on the value of his tuition forgiveness.