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bucolic_frolic

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

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Dec 5, 2023, 04:13 PM

Dec 2023

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.

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Nikki Haley wants to reform Social Security and Medicare. Donors are paying attention [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2023 OP

"Entitlement system"?!?!?!? Lunabell Dec 2023 #1

I think this means starve poor people, and give your paychecks to Wall Street bucolic_frolic Dec 2023 #2

GOP has been claim social security will go bankrupt Johonny Dec 2023 #3

Keep it up, Haley, or any other repug, including trump, about cutting SS entitlements... brush Dec 2023 #4

"Reform" equals "Loot" Simeon Salus Dec 2023 #5

It's not an "entitlement", it's insurance. tinrobot Dec 2023 #6

The only thing that needs to be done with SS is... Jacson6 Dec 2023 #7

If the income tax cap is eliminated, should the benefits cap be removed as well? The Contrarian Dec 2023 #13

No Jacson6 Dec 2023 #14

SS should be run by private companies for profit as God intended. Chainfire Dec 2023 #8

I'll bet we could fund these so-called entitlements in perpetuity gratuitous Dec 2023 #9

It won't be "reform," it will be privatization with corporate interests sucking funds out of the programs Liberal In Texas Dec 2023 #10

Reform is rightwing framing senseandsensibility Dec 2023 #11

What this guy really wants is to deny us getting $3,500 so he can get a $3.5 million tax break n/t0 airplaneman Dec 2023 #12

SS payments have to be requested punchergirl Dec 2023 #15

This! Jersey Devil Dec 2023 #16