Why not increase the monthly payment to $2000 and be done with it?
“Why not increase the monthly payment to $2000 and be done with it?”
Because the system is going broke as it is due to liberal raids for other programs like healthcare. Raising it would just speed the insolubility of the system up.
She’s talking about pulling seniors out of poverty when only 7% of the US seniors actually are involved. If she wants to do some good, don’t fish for more money, make the money you have now worth more. This is why we were better off when the DOW was at 4000 and now it is at almost 27,000. But the cost of things has inflated to match the market. And a fixed income to determine poverty level with a fluctuating market is inconsistent. To make it consistent, they will have to raise the payments at each flex like a variable mortgage. And since you can’t bleed a turnip, where is the money going to come from? And at that point we are in wealth redistribution and the money gets tightened.
All our gains over the last year and a half will go down the toilet and the efforts of the GOP will be shot in the foot. And we will be just as broke, again, as we were under Obama and getting worse.
rwood