Posted on 05/15/2014 7:01:56 AM PDT by 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.
What a RINO joke
RE: What a RINO joke
What about his SS proposal?
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?
greece, here we come
We in Florida have learned that Marco will say pretty much anything to get elected.
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.
I’d support those approaches on SS too. Good for Rubio, willing to express a complicated idea clearly on a sensitive issue.
I was going by what the article said
BUMP!
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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?
Yup. And then it'll be means tested on the recipients' end. Social Security is quickly becoming welfare.
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