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To: daler

I wish that Trump would stop saying “no tax on Social Security.” Any reduction in taxes for seniors would be seen as a positive, but not if they have been promised that they would pay NO TAXES.

We lost seats in the midterms in 2018 because of something about the deductibility of the SALT tax. This time a lot of people are going to be angry when they find out that their Social Security will still be taxed even if not as much as before.

A $6000 deduction in income, if someone is in a 20% tax bracket, is a $1200 deduction in taxes. Trump knows the difference. He needs to start explaining to people why he could not do the full “no taxes on Social Security” instead of over promising something that will not happen.


52 posted on 07/05/2025 10:17:58 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Freee-dame

“ He needs to start explaining to people why he could not do the full “no taxes on Social Security” instead of over promising something that will not happen.”

He just did

Congress got in the way. They could fix this, it was they who started it- in 1984. With Biden championing it

Taxes on SS were non existent from 1937 until 1984 when the democrat congress started them. then in 1993 they increased - democrat congress. Congress can repeal this BS

But they won’t

Trump showed us that the congress was at the helm of this


80 posted on 07/05/2025 10:40:12 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Freee-dame

That explanation is: “We have a crud Republican-controlled Congress.”


140 posted on 07/05/2025 12:01:15 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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