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Marco Rubio’s Right on Social Security
National Review ^ | 05/15/2014 | The Editors

Posted on 05/15/2014 7:01:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 05/15/2014 7:01:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Mario will say anything somebody pays him to say.
2 posted on 05/15/2014 7:03:05 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: SeekAndFind

If the polls are correct and Mark Pryor manages to rise from the electoral dead by attacking Cotton for supporting SS reform, you can kiss any potential SS reform goodbye.

Terrified Pubbies will not go anywhere near it.

Eventually the “reform” will be Liz Warren’s idea to extend FICA taxes to every penny of income.


3 posted on 05/15/2014 7:04:10 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

What a RINO joke


4 posted on 05/15/2014 7:04:16 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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RE: What a RINO joke

What about his SS proposal?


5 posted on 05/15/2014 7:04:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Undergirding these ideas is a positive conservative vision for Social Security. …
Is that anything like the so-called “conservative case for gay marriage” that was being bandied about last year?
6 posted on 05/15/2014 7:06:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Buckeye McFrog

greece, here we come


7 posted on 05/15/2014 7:06:12 AM PDT by ghost of stonewall jackson
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To: SeekAndFind

We in Florida have learned that Marco will say pretty much anything to get elected.


8 posted on 05/15/2014 7:06:18 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Shoot cops that shoot dogs.)
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To: SeekAndFind

That those who put the most in should get the least back? and those who put in very little should see benefits skyrocket?

A brand new welfare scheme.

Not a conservative approach at all.


9 posted on 05/15/2014 7:07:30 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’d support those approaches on SS too. Good for Rubio, willing to express a complicated idea clearly on a sensitive issue.


10 posted on 05/15/2014 7:09:05 AM PDT by babble-on
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That those who put the most in should get the least back? and those who put in very little should see benefits skyrocket?

Luckily he didn't say either of those things, but don't let that stop you from getting hysterical. Is it your time of the month?
11 posted on 05/15/2014 7:11:24 AM PDT by babble-on
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I was going by what the article said


12 posted on 05/15/2014 7:13:23 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: SeekAndFind

BUMP!


13 posted on 05/15/2014 7:13:42 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Rubio’s making an unsupported assumption and attempting to buttress that weakness with a pure appeal to emotion with the “stick to the wealthy” two-tier plan.

The unsupported assumption is about the increasing lifespan continuing. With O’Care in place, I find that to be lacking in evidence. In addition, anything that assumes a straight line into the future better have a load of facts behind it.

The class-envy appeal to emotion is simply base politics with the two-tier plan. If the money is withheld at the same rate, I don’t see they have a leg to stand on for the payout to be different.


14 posted on 05/15/2014 7:14:01 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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The statement is not in reference to him personally, it is just the truth.

What he really said and every congress person agrees ....."If you had died like you were supposed to at age 65 1/2 according to the SS Plan, we wouldn't be in this mess."

15 posted on 05/15/2014 7:16:37 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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I just don’t include Social Security in the “Welfare State” and to think that 1400 dollars is a lot of money for working 50 years is quite insane. Sorry the reason that Social Security is a mess is because Congress raided the slush fund or whatever you call it. They should have to recoup all that money themselves. Thieves.


16 posted on 05/15/2014 7:17:53 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Governor Scott Walker 2016 for the future of the country!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Eventually the “reform” will be Liz Warren’s idea to extend FICA taxes to every penny of income.

I would just be glad when my Boss stops coming out in July and says to all of us, well I begin my “raise from now until the end of the year”....he finished paying the max to Social Security while the rest of us continue to pay for the rest of the year. Now I am not saying that he should pay more. All I am saying is he should shut the heck up.


17 posted on 05/15/2014 7:20:27 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Governor Scott Walker 2016 for the future of the country!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Imagine if the 15% of your income (7.5% from you and 7.5% from your employer) taken for FICA were invested in conventional investment instruments.

If you worked for 40 years between ages 20 and 65, you’d be a millionaire at retirement.

In just 20 years, I’m halfway there just applying 4% with employer matching to a 401K.


18 posted on 05/15/2014 7:23:53 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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Luckily he didn't say either of those things, but don't let that stop you from getting hysterical. Is it your time of the month?

Maybe he didn't, but the article says: " He wants middle- and high-income Americans to see their benefits grow more slowly and the poor to see their benefits grow more quickly. "

How is that idea anything other than redistribution/welfare?

19 posted on 05/15/2014 7:27:02 AM PDT by old and tired
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Eventually the “reform” will be Liz Warren’s idea to extend FICA taxes to every penny of income.

Yup. And then it'll be means tested on the recipients' end. Social Security is quickly becoming welfare.

20 posted on 05/15/2014 7:28:04 AM PDT by old and tired
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