#socialsecurity
August 13, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law.
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But in 2024 it is no longer guaranteed that Social Security is “safe forever.” The Republican Party has called repeatedly for cuts to the popular program. As recently as March 2024, the Republican Study Committee, which includes the Republican House leadership and about 80% of House Republicans, said it is “committed to protecting and strengthening” Social Security by raising the retirement age and cutting benefits for those who are not yet approaching retirement. The Heritage Foundation, the main organization behind Project 2025, said in June that the retirement age should be raised.
The biggest contrast in the upcoming election (other than democracy vs. "blood in the streets" fascism)
Please spread the word
by Robert Reich
https://substack.com/inbox/post/142651719
#SocialSecurity #Taxes #TaxtheRich #TrumpisaLoser #MAGA #GOP #GQP #Republicans #Elections #Trump
Trump goes into PANIC in rare admission of defeat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHNfE3nvjAA
#TrumpisaLoser #MAGA #GOP #GQP #Republicans #Elections #Trump #RNC #TrumpIsALiar #Entitlements #SocialSecurity #Medicare #Medicaid
https://www.commondreams.org/news/social-security-fiscal-commission-2666942470
Protect #SocialSecurity by Dumping #GOP 'Death Panel,' Say 116 House Dems
BRETT WILKINS
Jan 12, 2024
..."While House #Republicans claim the purpose of the proposed #fiscal commission is to control the $34 trillion national debt, #Democrats have expressed skepticism regarding their true intentions, noting that GOP lawmakers have dramatically increased the debt via tax cuts for #corporations and rich #Americans in recent years.
In November, House Republicans proposed cuts to Internal Revenue Service funding that would slash federal revenue by $27 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. A 2023 analysis by the Center for American Progress found that tax cuts approved during the George W. Bush and Trump administration have added $10 trillion to the national debt this century.
Social Security, meanwhile, does not add to the long-term federal deficit because the program is required by law to pay benefits from an internal trust fund and is prohibited from borrowing.
"Republicans are not serious about the deficit. They are not even serious about governing. They are serious about only one thing, and that is ripping away Social Security from seniors behind closed doors," said Schakowsky. "A so-called fiscal commission would fast-track cuts to vital benefits Americans rely on."
"Social Security benefits are already modest—only about $21,384 a year, yet Republicans want to put these hard-earned benefits at risk," she added. "We must expand Social Security benefits, not cut them."
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"Democratic leaders in both the House and Senate should make it clear that a commission is a poison pill, something they will never accept under any circumstances," Altman continued. "Social Security and Medicare are earned benefits. They should never be negotiating chips."
"Instead of a closed door commission, the House should hold an up or down vote on the Social Security 2100 Act," she added. "This legislation increases Social Security's modest benefits and ensures the expanded benefits can be paid in full and on time for decades to come."...
Argentina’s Javier Milei warns of 'shock’ as he takes power | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
Argentina’s new president Javier Milei sang to his supporters and stopped his motorcade to pet a dog, on the day he was officially sworn into office. But the...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Argentina #Economic #JavierMilei #Milei #Protest #Shock #SocialSecurity #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines
Argentina’s Javier Milei warns of 'shock’ as he takes power | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
Amen
"We must make the wealthy pay their fair share" - Robert Reich
On #SocialSecurity and #taxes on the uber-wealthy vs those of us who work, or have worked, & paid taxes, but aren't #billionaires.
#UK #benefits fall short of minimum living cost by £140 a month, charities say | #Poverty |
The Guardian
So much for "sponging off the state".
#Politcs #CostOfLiving #SocialSecurity #Welfare #UniversalCredit #Tories
#GQP - Business as usual
I.e., lies, fear/hate mongering, #disinformation, #sedition, #denial, #projection, gibberish and dog whistles, fueled by FoxMike Lee feigns shock at the suggestion of what he actually said... "facts are funny things".... And fact is, many #GQP / #TrumpVirus cultists are out to destroy the things dearest to most (non-billionaire) Americans. Be mindful, even if you'll be ridiculed as woke for seeing reality.
#SocialSecurity #MikeLee #USC #corruption #GQP #Medicare #Medicaid #democracy #retirement #seniors #dignity
Un-paywalled article on the status of the #GQP prospects for cutting basic American (paid for) senior care/security programs -
#SocialSecurity and #Medicare
Republicans are hardly unified on wanting to cut Medicare
Context for non-Americans: There are two programs for senior citizens/elderly, which are paid for by workers' taxes over their lifetimes. Separate from budgets, but some "conservative"/ "Tea Party" GOP'ers have long portrayed the system as broke(n), which it is not, and tried to loot 'the people's' senior safety net and benefits to fund their own projects, now depleted by their spending.
Anyway, not the title... "hardly unified" as of now, and that may be true of anything, beyond disruption and obstruction of #justice with regard to the #sedition aided and abetted by those now sitting on committees which were investigating their criminal behavior. whew!
● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ 'It Is Urgent': Progressives Push for Bill to Expand and Improve #SocialSecurity https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/08/it-urgent-progressives-push-bill-expand-and-improve-social-security
● NEWS ● #CounterPunch #Finance ☞ The #SocialSecurity Disability Trust Fund Has Gotten Healthier: Have Workers? https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/10/25/the-social-security-disability-trust-fund-has-gotten-healthier-have-workers/
● NEWS ● #CounterPunch ☞ The Future of #SocialSecurity : What If We Make It Bigger? https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/10/15/the-future-of-social-security-what-if-we-make-it-bigger/
seeing #DisabledPeopleAgainstCuts' upcoming campaigns, i support #dpac's #20More4All #CancelTheCut #StopAndScrapUniversalCredit #IncreaseDisabilityBenefits #UniversalDisCredit
and i add #nomoredeathsfrombenefitscuts #averybritishgenocide #endaverybritishgenocide #nocullnecessary #egalitarianism #equality #equity #fairness #humanetreatment #socialsecurity #anybodycanbecomedisabled #disabilityrights #humanrights and even #ubi