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In reply to the discussion: Social Security and the life expectancy meme: the age of SS cutting is upon us again. [View all]Turbineguy
(38,101 posts)70. That's why we need to put trump back.
He'll get life expectancy at any age down.
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jaxexpat
Mar 2024
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There should be a means test that would keep people like my dad from drawing it. As I told him many times ...
marble falls
Mar 2024
#1
Actually it was designed to even give money to the wealthy. The strength of its support was it was not need based
karynnj
Mar 2024
#15
When you drive your insured car with no claims, should the insurance company give you back your payments ...
marble falls
Mar 2024
#59
As soon as that is done, SS becomes an entitlement and not an earned benefit.
LiberalArkie
Mar 2024
#65
No means test. It will destroy SS...raise taxes so the rich pay their fair share.
Demsrule86
Mar 2024
#71
The asses who want to raise the age to 70 or 85 are the same ones who would never hire anyone over 50.
CousinIT
Mar 2024
#88
Right on, raising retirement age is not the only fix available. Take the income cap off SS taxes. And...
dutch777
Mar 2024
#2
Taxable and actually losing $1.00 for each $2.00 earned over a set amount
PoindexterOglethorpe
Mar 2024
#113
The 401K, I think, was designed by big corporations as a way to avoid giving actual pensions.
viva la
Mar 2024
#11
How are Republicans going to be able to afford those huge tax cuts for the wealthy???
RAB910
Mar 2024
#8
You didn't mention the other part that raised my hackles; killing the widow(ers) and children's benefit.
flying_wahini
Mar 2024
#12
You're quite right. I didn't try to expose all their intentions, though. I don't type well.
jaxexpat
Mar 2024
#21
All the people who weren't working because their place of employment shut down didn't pay anything into SS
MichMan
Mar 2024
#32
Also, women's life expectancy is improved by modern prenatal care. It's an easier world to grow up in.
jaxexpat
Mar 2024
#30
The only presidential candidate I know of to ever use the "SS lock-box" as a campaign plank was Al Gore.
jaxexpat
Mar 2024
#34
Republicans need to practice what they preach and refuse SS benefits as a matter of personal ethics.
Chainfire
Mar 2024
#55
It is an entitlement. You are entitled to a payment because you have been paying
JohnSJ
Mar 2024
#108
Good point except it seems to play into the falsehood that Social Security is a tax based program.
jaxexpat
Mar 2024
#75
A lifetime record of taxes paid will not determine your monthly SS retirement check.
jaxexpat
Mar 2024
#109
You retirement money could be better spent by the wealthy on necessities like yachts and vacation homes.
Chainfire
Mar 2024
#54
Absolutely love the passion-n-logic of your rant, GC. I think I'll go out onto the balmy patio's 75 and think on it.
jaxexpat
Mar 2024
#77
Everyone who pays into social security deserves to get social security regardless of income. What
JohnSJ
Mar 2024
#102
We ascend a slippery slope when we oblige a political institution to define "need".
jaxexpat
Mar 2024
#111