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4. you know very well that it's just a temporary incentive
Wed Dec 21, 2011, 01:45 PM
Dec 2011

like the 'Making Work Pay' incentive which expired in 2010, or the EITC. None of the hysteria that you're promoting here is planned or has happened. The tax cut will eventually be replaced with another incentive, if still needed, to get money back into folk's hands.

Ideally, the wealthier should pay more. That would increase revenue into the program while limiting the burden on the middle class. You pose this fearful proposition as if there was no defense at all against some bullshit political argument. It's simply not credible or realistic from any number of angle that this temporary cut (extended temporarily) threatens Social Security. It doesn't matter how many weak political arguments you can conjure.

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