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Martin Eden
(12,511 posts)15. R's want to finance tax cuts for thr rich by stealing our retirement funds
Their formula is fairly simple:
Tax cuts for the rich drive up huge budget deficits.
Then they scream we have to cut spending so much on "entitlements" the nation can no longer afford.
It's should be obvious to anyone capable of critical thought this is a brazen scheme to transfer wealth from working Americans into the pockets of millionaires & billionaires who finance the political careers of these Rethuglicans.
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It very well IS AND ENTITLEMENT,, because we did work for it, we are entitled to it.
HUAJIAO
Jun 2023
#1
Exactly. I've never understood the opposition to the term "Entitlement." But
Silent Type
Jun 2023
#2
We need to stop voting for people who refuse to end the cap. Why are these fucking people held up
onecaliberal
Jun 2023
#4
And there you go, as R. Reagan would say, defining the essential mission of the GOP.
jaxexpat
Jun 2023
#74
"We" don't vote for these people. But the magats in a separate reality only hear each other and vote
housecat
Jun 2023
#58
Which is exactly why it is an entitlement. Entitled means it is owned to you.
we can do it
Jun 2023
#18
It's only fair to raise the wage cap. There are more millionaires/billionaires than ever. Plus, most
allegorical oracle
Jun 2023
#40
It might be fair, but it won't happen unless a lot more Democrats are elected.
Silent Type
Jun 2023
#44
It's because the right has demonized the word "entitlement," just as it did the word "liberal"
wackadoo wabbit
Jun 2023
#57
right,, repubs have twisted the meaning of the word, the media runs with that meaning
HUAJIAO
Jun 2023
#22
Frankly, the only real entitlements are the ones the Repugs like to grant themselves --
KPN
Jun 2023
#3
Republicans have always been against Social Security because it is for workers and not
Lonestarblue
Jun 2023
#11
They've been doing it for a very long time. They've succeeded in a very big way.
onecaliberal
Jun 2023
#48
Believe that was the fantasy of the Laffer Curve and supply side economics, that if the rich aren't
allegorical oracle
Jun 2023
#42
Interesting -- thanks for that info. It's such a complex balancing act and that's before three years
allegorical oracle
Jun 2023
#56
You're right onecaliberal -- we worked for it - us and our employers paid for it. n/t
iluvtennis
Jun 2023
#28
The OP stated "Social Security is OUR money. It exists because WORKERS PAY INTO IT."
grantcart
Jun 2023
#38
So? It is still counted in the amount that employers consider their total payment to an employee,
pnwmom
Jun 2023
#65
No its not. Its counted as an employer expense just like an electric bill or other business expense
grantcart
Jun 2023
#66
House GOP releases budget that would 'destroy Social Security as we know it'
LetMyPeopleVote
Jun 2023
#72
It is in the old Republican DNA and now the MAGA Republican DNA - they want to take our Social Secur
LetMyPeopleVote
Jun 2023
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