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21. Depends if the angry dragon savings account holds savings or...

Sun Mar 3, 2013, 03:04 PM

Mar 2013

Ious.

If they hold ious then Angry Dragon needs to borrow to pay back the savings account.

Thus where you used to owe money to yourself you now owe money to someone else.

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There are bills in the house and the senate to raise the SS cap and Obama campaigned on this issue. [View all] dkf Mar 2013 OP

It seems that this weekend you are obsessed with SS Angry Dragon Mar 2013 #1

All the people insisting it not be touched. dkf Mar 2013 #2

I'm concerned, if a bunch of money was borrowed from the SS trust fund, can we pretend that patrice Mar 2013 #3

Here is my take on SS Angry Dragon Mar 2013 #5

Agreed about CPI, even for someone who'd be willing to consider a slow down in the patrice Mar 2013 #12

I am still waiting for dkf to respond to any questions I have asked them over the last two days Angry Dragon Mar 2013 #14

If CPI includes medical costs then decreasing medical costs decreases CPI based payments Progressive dog Mar 2013 #28

Thanks for this. nt patrice Mar 2013 #31

Why chained CPI instead of CPI-E then? AnnaLee Mar 2013 #36

The payroll tax holiday was paid for by adding the cost to the federal budget. dkf Mar 2013 #15

Re: your header... ljm2002 Mar 2013 #16

Honestly I didn't understand the mechanics back then. dkf Mar 2013 #18

No, silly... ljm2002 Mar 2013 #25

Which is the mechanics of it. dkf Mar 2013 #26

I wonder why you refuse to answer the questions put to you?? Angry Dragon Mar 2013 #17

Depends if the angry dragon savings account holds savings or... dkf Mar 2013 #21

What a bunch of bull Angry Dragon Mar 2013 #22

What a bunch of malarkey Progressive dog Mar 2013 #27

I think that is precisely what they want to confuse people into believing. AnnaLee Mar 2013 #37

I for one would rather have 20 years of certainty in NO CAT FOOD Progressive dog Mar 2013 #30

Silence? = Those $110K-? incomes are too marginal to take the hit? patrice Mar 2013 #9

Why would raising the cap be a problem? Why not? patrice Mar 2013 #4

I never said that the cap should not be raised Angry Dragon Mar 2013 #8

Well, I think all of us agree about that. Does raising the cap assume that it is part of the budget patrice Mar 2013 #10

A large part of the problem is that republicans want to include anything about SS to be Angry Dragon Mar 2013 #11

True, SS doesn't have anything to do with the discretionary budget management end of it and it patrice Mar 2013 #20

It is smart politics. AnnaLee Mar 2013 #38

Lift the SS earnings cap altogether. Will solve several problems simultaneously. leveymg Mar 2013 #6

When he was campaigning, Obama pandered that he wanted to raise the cap brentspeak Mar 2013 #7

"Today"? "Only"? Not so. riqster Mar 2013 #13

Ok, then link us to where Obama has said otherwise. brentspeak Mar 2013 #23

Done. riqster Mar 2013 #32

That's it? brentspeak Mar 2013 #33

You said that all Obama was talking about was chained CPI riqster Mar 2013 #35

I'm sure the rich will pass the bills. PHFFFFFFFFTT (sound of large long fart in the key of F major) L0oniX Mar 2013 #19

Tell me that raising the cap doesn't have anything to do with incomes that, while you and I would patrice Mar 2013 #24

Congress and senate will not care as long as they get campaign fundng from Exxon, United, ect... L0oniX Mar 2013 #29

The Cap should be eliminated. That is the only fair solution. nt bluestate10 Mar 2013 #34