What will it take?
It will take so-called "conservatives" understanding that Social Security and Medicare must end. The government must entirely end its business of providing old-age pensions, old-age medical insurance, and monetary support to the poor. It does all these things badly. It has no constitutional authority to do any of them.
And now supposed conservatives on a supposedly conservative wwweb forum will begin screeching at me.
It is OK with me.
Of course if Republicans run on that platform the victorious Democrats will be using all of us for slave labor by 2030—so it won’t matter anyway.
Lol.
Easy for you to say, I am 64 and paid into SS for my whole life. I need my money back when I retire next year.
“It will take so-called “conservatives” understanding that Social Security and Medicare must end. The government must entirely end its business of providing old-age pensions, old-age medical insurance, and monetary support to the poor. It does all these things badly. It has no constitutional authority to do any of them.”
It has the power to tax incomes, without apportionment due to AMENDMENT XVI.
“The Congress shall have power to dispose of...property belonging to the United States”
ARTICLE IV SECTION 2
Congress can take your hard-earned money and give it to a garbage man to throw in his truck, or to give to his sister, or to your doctor.
“Social Security and Medicare must end”
I’ve paid property taxes to pay for K-12 education for about forty years.
I expect the educated kiddies to throw some money back my way. I’ve had no children.
1) Medicare/federal "healthcare" is a no-brainer: end it NOW!!!! Medicare/federal "healthcare" is the lion's share of federal spending. And at some point, the feds pay back Medicare taxes.
2) Social Security is more problematic. It is unconstitutional but since many rely on it for their financial survival, it should be gradually ramped down.
3) End the balance of unconstitutional federal spending and agencies NOW!!!
Do this and most of the problem is solved. The only thing left is how to humanely ramp down Social Security. But we will be well on our way to recovery of our Free Constitutional Republic, and individual freedom and prosperity.
1) Medicare/federal "healthcare" is a no-brainer: end it NOW!!!! Medicare/federal "healthcare" is the lion's share of federal spending. And at some point, the feds pay back Medicare taxes.
2) Social Security is more problematic. It is unconstitutional but since many rely on it for their financial survival, it should be gradually ramped down.
3) End the balance of unconstitutional federal spending and agencies NOW!!!
Do this and most of the problem is solved. The only thing left is how to humanely ramp down Social Security. But we will be well on our way to recovery of our Free Constitutional Republic, and individual freedom and prosperity.
Oh yes, end the Social Security and Medicare and 99% of seniors vote Democrat.
Uh, they are funded by separate taxes. We pay in, we take out later.
If they quit spending the money and invested it in the S&P we’d have trillions to pay out.