Bernie Sanders, Dems Propose Investment Gains Tax Hike to Pay for Social Security Expansion

PJ Media ^ | 02/24/2017 | Nicholas Ballasy

[wardamneagle]

Aaaaawh HELL NO !

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Folks, the democrats are coming after your 401k and IRA retirement funds.

[Major Matt Mason]

The politicians keep stealing from SS to pay for their pet projects. They are responsible for the shortfall.

[South Dakota]

Lets tax the failed socialist politicians right out of their homes they realized on the backs of hard working US citizens.

We will not get much but I bet the rest will be silent

[SVTCobra03]

Capital gains tax and taxes on interest and dividends should be abolished.

[NTHockey]

Any money they raise by increased taxes will never get to seniors; they’ll spend it on snail darter research and why chickens cross the road. Pretending to care about seniors is the cruelest hoax the Democrats could possibly play.

[Myrddin]

Sell off investments that would be tagged by this idiocy. Sign up for the income deferral plan to ensure any income never crosses the new $250k boundary. The tax and spend liberals have been handing out the social security money confiscated from our paychecks to illegals who never contributed a dime.

[rwa265]

If passed and signed into law by Trump

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Yeah, like that’s going to happen

[bert]

As an amendment to the bill, half of earnings greater than 6.2% will not be taxed and will be invested in any of say 10 index funds to the personal account of the taxpayer.

[depressed in 06]

Sanders said Trump should support their bill since he pledged not to cut Social Security during the presidential campaign.

How is not signing an expansion of Social Security a cut?

[ronnie raygun]

They themselves and their despicable cohort criminals sole from the SSI cookie jar and never replaced any of it, they also continue to give it out to those who did not pay into it. F them all

[Sequoyah101]

How about taking the mass of deadbeats that were put on SS disability instead of welfare in the last decade?

How about taking people who are getting disability that get around much better than I do off of it and making them go to WORK at something! I’ve met more than one of these people. Met one one day on full disability driving a FUSO offroad RV he had to climb up into and he was also carrying his dirt bike. Headed for Burning Man and taking time off from his business. Another guy down the road spends his days riding his Harley and working around his house. Again, gets around better than I do. These sure look like fraud to me.

[HenpeckedCon]

Typical liberal math. Increasing the tax rate from 3.8 to 10% is not a 6.2% tax hike. It’s a 263% tax hike.

[hal ogen]

ALL LIBS are lunatics.