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In reply to the discussion: What is wrong with the tax cut for SS recipients. Although I will save [View all]lostincalifornia
(4,864 posts)Its strategy is that those on social security and those who work on tips will vote for republicans in the midterms and next presidential election.
It will expire when trump leaves office, and will hurt the poorest, along with accelerating Social Security and Medicare insolvency.
All this will significantly increase the deficit at the expense of decreasing Medicaid benefits, healthcare services, and other vital services.
While most objective people can see right through this con, the diabolical, deceitful hope of trump and his republican thugs, is that it will deceive older Americans over 65, and the younger population which earns their wages through tips to impact the midterms in 2026, and the presidential election in 2028.
Most in the demographics affected may not realize or worse, not care that it is selling the future of social security, medicare, and the poor and middle class down the toilet, for the illusion of short term gains.
This is how he hopes to win the midterms and the next presidential election for the next republican THUG.
This is Project 2025 on steroids, and will be the destruction of the middle class, and permanent rethug rule.
The question is, can those poor, working poor, and those who won't realize any of the short term benefit from this deception be enough to vote them out in 2026 and 2028? That will be the last hope for our Democracy.
The deficit will be so bad because of this deplorable tax legislation, that when the next presidential election comes up they will use that argument to justify either privatizing Social Security and Medicare, or actually "phasing it out", which will be the end of the safety net for millions of Americans.