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cbrer

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32. One simple piece of legislation

Reply to nanabugg (Original post)

Mon Aug 13, 2012, 02:49 AM

Aug 2012

Will keep SS solvent for the next 80 years. Raise the income cutoff at which you pay the SS tax.

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Social Security is a fund that workers have paid into and not everyone lives to collect but it is [View all] nanabugg Aug 2012 OP

SS can also be a gouge that does not honor its agreement to pay up nt msongs Aug 2012 #1

can you explain what you're talking about? HiPointDem Aug 2012 #33

The payments the workers paid customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #2

It doesn't even really work like insurance FarCenter Aug 2012 #4

Yes, it has all kinds of features customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #10

You're entitled to your own opinions. You're not entitled to your own facts. lumberjack_jeff Aug 2012 #24

And I have opinions about those certificates customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #45

Mostly correct. Common Sense Party Aug 2012 #52

it's not in a dire situation, & the wounds you describe have been inflicted by 1%-ers. we have HiPointDem Aug 2012 #34

And some of those one-percenters customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #46

10 years of marriage isn't long? rgbecker Aug 2012 #27

No. 10 years is only about 1/4 of a working career FarCenter Aug 2012 #28

Also I think S.S. takes the highest situation exboyfil Aug 2012 #56

SS uses the entire work record of each ex-spouse and uses the one that computes the highest benefit FarCenter Aug 2012 #61

The Republicans would rather you just paid it directly to their owners... Scuba Aug 2012 #3

Yes, they are drooling over it, plus it fits flamingdem Aug 2012 #5

They've been drooling over it for decades. Their greedy eyes see that huge fund sabrina 1 Aug 2012 #6

Don't know where you've been customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #11

And we the people want that money put back where they borrowed it from. sabrina 1 Aug 2012 #14

Yes, the people do indeed want it back customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #18

omg, you're parroting bush's 'file cabinet with iou's' meme. HiPointDem Aug 2012 #35

Ah, yes customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #39

the way they always have & are currently. by redeeming the trust fund iou's. duh. HiPointDem Aug 2012 #43

There have been a few accounting gimmicks customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #47

SS Securities are *regularly & constantly* being redeemed, and that's been true since the program HiPointDem Aug 2012 #53

Send people to prison me b zola Aug 2012 #55

Who, dead congresscritters customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #58

And I personally know of people who worked for companies marlakay Aug 2012 #7

How many people with a 401K customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #12

It may be there but the level of benefits and taxes can be changed at will by legislation. dkf Aug 2012 #8

A lot of younger folks see things your way customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #13

they see things her way because they've been propagandized by ryan-bots for 30 years. you're HiPointDem Aug 2012 #37

Ok, if you go all the way back to 1991 customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #38

Let me repeat what you claimed: HiPointDem Aug 2012 #44

Yes, I should have said customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #48

that isn't true either, so i don't know why you keep insisting that it is. it's not *my* chart, HiPointDem Aug 2012 #51

Your chart, their chart, what's the difference? customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #59

And if we let the Global Cartels do to us what they did to Europe, we will sabrina 1 Aug 2012 #16

When no one wants to lend to you and you have promised more than you make you have no options. dkf Aug 2012 #30

It is INSURANCE. We all pay premiums based on our income, and most of us kestrel91316 Aug 2012 #9

JFTR - you don't have to pay into SS to collect it. DURHAM D Aug 2012 #15

That's fantastic. Looking out for the working people and recognizing that their sabrina 1 Aug 2012 #17

I find absolutely nothing to celebrate in a policy DURHAM D Aug 2012 #19

I find anything that looks out for the working class as it is so rare in this society today, sabrina 1 Aug 2012 #20

In the "working class" today both spouses are working - DURHAM D Aug 2012 #21

There are plenty of families where only one spouse works outside the home SickOfTheOnePct Aug 2012 #23

A very small percentage of working class families in this day and time DURHAM D Aug 2012 #25

I agree that gay couples should be able to marry and gain exboyfil Aug 2012 #57

This is a middle/lower income tax, not an upper income tax. dkf Aug 2012 #31

I'd like to see the stats on early deaths. trof Aug 2012 #22

Men die sooner than women FarCenter Aug 2012 #29

African-Americans die sooner than whites customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #40

So, does that mean dsteve01 Aug 2012 #26

One simple piece of legislation cbrer Aug 2012 #32

reading the responses to this thread, being anti-SS seems to be becoming a democratic value. HiPointDem Aug 2012 #36

It's not anti Social Security customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #41

actually i've studied it in great detail, & yeah, i prefer the president let a committee study it HiPointDem Aug 2012 #42

So, that's the fantasy customerserviceguy Aug 2012 #49

you haven't even copped to your earlier error. so far as i'm concerned, the error & the refusal to HiPointDem Aug 2012 #50

Being anti-SS became a democratic value about the exact time being anti-union did NNN0LHI Aug 2012 #60

+1 HiPointDem Aug 2012 #62

I am definitely not anti-SS because I am collecting it now. RebelOne Aug 2012 #63

Beware Gordon Gekko bhikkhu Aug 2012 #54