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Increased Benefits Come With Social Security Expansion Act
The New American Magazine ^ | August 7, 2022 | David Kelly

Posted on 08/07/2022 4:53:44 PM PDT by george76

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1 posted on 08/07/2022 4:53:44 PM PDT by george76
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How will this be paid for?


2 posted on 08/07/2022 4:54:48 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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With our credit cards.

Seriously...as the Fed Gov increases its debt the interest rates charged to consumers rises, irrespective of what the Federal Reserve does.


3 posted on 08/07/2022 4:57:53 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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So a $200 increase for all or 12% increase on your current rate?


4 posted on 08/07/2022 5:00:01 PM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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The seniors who are NOT able to pick up a part time job are the people I really feel for right now, inflation is out of control REALLY OUT OF CONTROL!! These folks have worked hard their entire lives and these bastards have increased the cost of living so much it is impossible for them to make it without giving up whatever enjoyable activities they may have!! I HATE THE BASTARDS IN DC!!


5 posted on 08/07/2022 5:00:24 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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Oh, come on, man......we’ll just raise taxes and the deficit ceiling. Bada boom, bada bing....done!


6 posted on 08/07/2022 5:02:47 PM PDT by ealgeone
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And because if that, ss recipients will also have to pay more in taxes


7 posted on 08/07/2022 5:03:30 PM PDT by freepertoo
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How will this be paid for??? LOL, LOL, LOL who gives a shit at this point, HOW THE HELL will the bill passed today be paid for??


8 posted on 08/07/2022 5:03:42 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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>>How will this be paid for?

The same way Trillion $ to Ukraine was paid for?

9 posted on 08/07/2022 5:04:11 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

The Pink Unicorn ATM the demonratcommieblmantifaterrorscumfeminazipedophilegoatrapers think exists to give out money.

Raising Taxes, like always.


10 posted on 08/07/2022 5:05:42 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !)
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from taxes on all the increased winnings at the casino


11 posted on 08/07/2022 5:05:49 PM PDT by bigbob (z)
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To: ealgeone

There will come a time when they won’t be able to print money like it’s growing on trees. Then Social Security will collapse.

When the Dollar ceases being the World Reserve Currency, look out. It’s coming.


12 posted on 08/07/2022 5:06:48 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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Just Bernie’s pipe dream so far, but another powerful tool to scare older folks before the election.


13 posted on 08/07/2022 5:07:15 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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a bill that establishes congressional rescue committees to develop recommendations and legislation to improve critical social-contract programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
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We all know that taxation is theft,


It is hard to believe that the same person wrote both those sentences. This "Social Contract" lingo is used to generate the legal fiction that all people agreed to it because it was passed by a Congress and signed 90 years ago.

Contrast that with "We all know that taxation is theft". Well, Murray Rothbard thought so, and so do the anarcho-libertarians. That is not the traditional conservative position, nor the Bircher tradition. Now, taxation as it is now practiced is certainly theft. However, if a state funds its military by slapping tariffs on imported goods that are used to keep the order that makes the trade possible, I wouldn't call that theft in the same way that a payroll tax that goes into the general fund to fund things we are too broke to buy and don't need is.
14 posted on 08/07/2022 5:09:53 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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Paid by FICA tax increase on those earning over $147,000.


15 posted on 08/07/2022 5:10:09 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump pp& MAGA are the only way to keep USA viable.)
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“There will come a time when they won’t be able to print money like it’s growing on trees.”

That time will never come. Remember the Weimar Republic. One man said his father spent 20 years paying up on an insurance fund, with 20 years of hard, decent money, and when he got it, he went and bought a loaf of bread.


16 posted on 08/07/2022 5:11:25 PM PDT by odawg
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As proposed, taxable income goes up $200 per month and with current 20% inflation they will have lost 10% of the purchasing power of Social Security payments.

Remember, this will eventually implode. As per Coward-Priven plan. This is about the agenda. About destroying the USA and making us all serfs on the global plantation.


17 posted on 08/07/2022 5:11:40 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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Getting rid of the cap would allow the fund to last a long time. See if they have the guts. Maybe raise to 250K. Who knows. No matter what social security will go up just with the COLA in 2023. So they better do something. I’m eligible in 2038. Probably get 5 bucks and told to be happy:


18 posted on 08/07/2022 5:11:44 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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The bill proposes to increase the maximum taxable salary for Social Security, adding funding by applying the Social Security payroll tax to all income below $250,000. Currently, earnings above $147,000 aren’t subject to the Social Security tax. An additional proposal would be to base the annual COLA on the Consumer Price Index for the Elderly (CPI-E) instead of the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W).


19 posted on 08/07/2022 5:12:12 PM PDT by ALX
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AOC: Just print more money. Simple.


20 posted on 08/07/2022 5:14:20 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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