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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's sneak attack on social security -- and how he thinks he can quietly get away with it
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/trumps-sneak-attack-on-social-security-and-how-the-president-thinks-he-can-quietly-get-away-with-it/So Trump and his budget director/chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who has long been hostile to Social Security, are trying another tactic to cut our earned benefits. They are pursuing a long game to reach their goal. In a divide-and-conquer move, the focus is not Social Security. At least, not yet.
Last week, the Trump administration revealed that it is planning to employ the so-called chained Consumer Price Index (CPI) in a way that does not need congressional approval. Chained CPI might sound technical and boring, but anyone who has closely followed the Social Security debate knows better. It has long been proposed as a deceptive, hard-to-understand way to cut our earned Social Security benefits.
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So, what does this have to do with Social Security? Like the poverty level, Social Securitys modest benefits are automatically adjusted to keep pace with inflation. If not adjusted, those benefits will erode, slowly but inexorably losing their purchasing power over time. These annual adjustments are already too low, but they are better than no adjustment at all. The chained CPI would make these adjustments even less adequate. The top line of the following chart shows what a more accurate adjustment would look like. The line below it shows what the current adjustment does to benefits, and the bottom line shows what the stingier chained CPI would do:
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)G Bush wanted to let Wall St get its hands on your pensions.
The housing crash stopped that scam but not the constant attacks on SS and USPS etc
Greed knows no limits.
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)"Entitlement" was turned into a dirty word by republicans, like what happened to "Liberal".
It is NOT a dirty word and we ARE entitled to SS because we paid for it, dammit!
nykym
(3,063 posts)be calling it an Earned Benefit not an entitlement.
a kennedy
(29,655 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)I knew he would pull this shit!
Only for the rich!
Have a coronary asshole, that's what you're doing to the country!
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)We got a 3.8% cost of living adjustment this year for SS.
Yea, well congress is proposing 15 percent cola for them, to keep good people from leaving public service. Fuck these assholes to hell, and not back.
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)Traildogbob
(8,720 posts)Maybe we should starve the beast. Pay em minimum wage. Bonuses if legislation gets passed that helps everyone BUT the wealthy.
gtar100
(4,192 posts)and do everything they can to dismantle it. It has the word "Social" in it so it must be bad.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)which I usually don't listen to but got stuck somewhere and it was on--midday show--a caller asked re puke plans to cut Social Security and the hosts said no because it was too politically hazardous--I figured they weren't aware of the CPI plan and sure enough, they weren't. THIS is how the pukes plan to slip the cuts in under the radar. St. Ronnie enacted a BIG cut by raising the retirement age but because it didn't kick in for 25 years, the evil old bastard escaped opprobrium. pukes play the long game and are sneaky about it, and I guarantee my puke-voting red don-loving neighbors will never learn or figure out what hit them.
Traildogbob
(8,720 posts)Don't forget, SS was not federally taxed until after Ronney cut the rich taxes for trickle down bull shit. St. Ronny.
wryter2000
(46,037 posts)To make it "less attractive to be on unemployment."
Disgusting bastard.
shanti
(21,675 posts)Way before any of us boomers (the target, apparently) would feel the pain. I hate these people.
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)I swear, before the ink was dry on FDR's signature, they were planning ways to destroy the program.
This bears watching, and I don't want to hear of 'compromises' from Dems.
CousinIT
(9,240 posts)WH and Representative phones and email boxes need to be SLAMMED to stop this.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)fuck you all
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)again
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)Trump and Mulvaney don't care about Congressional powers or the Constitution.
GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)I hoped the "chained" CPI bullshit had gone away. It's like a vampire. Can't kill it, apparenty.
bdamomma
(63,837 posts)told us all so many years ago. The foresight this man had, I wish he was still alive today.
CrispyQ
(36,460 posts)dalton99a
(81,455 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)could use this as a tool in defeating those who agree with and support IT (the great pretender). Rumpie is a coward. The republican base of old folks, like me, should wail, keep your hands off of my SS check.
(Sometimes I feel like saying fu, I fought for mine. You voted for the POS now reap the whirlwind.)
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ooky
(8,922 posts)Florida and other places where there are a lot of age 50+.