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In reply to the discussion: Pay attention, please. This is your money, not an entitlement. [View all]raging moderate
(4,347 posts)14. Yes, you are right. Social Security IS an entitlement program.
Be very careful. These GOP jerks are just vicious enough to have a long-term plan to change the meaning of the word "entitlement" so they can wipe out all these programs.
If you receive money from an entitlement program, that means you are entitled to it. That money has YOUR NAME (TITLE) on it, because YOU EARNED THE RIGHT TO RECEIVE IT!
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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