It’s time for conservatives to make peace with Social Security and Medicare. Their own voters are receiving these program and rely on them - middle class working people who don’t have the advantage of govt pensions or inheritances to sustain them in old age. GOP should be finding ways to fund these programs , not cut them. I would divert money from the military industrial complex , and aid to illegals, and foreign aid. Also I’d be open to raising taxes on big business. I don’t consider most big corporations to be my friends. They’ve bought the whole agenda - diversity rules for employees, subsidies for BLM, encouraging and funding for employees’abortions (even travel costs). And big payouts to executives regardless of stock performance. I’d be fine with raising their taxes to help fill any shortfall in programs our seniors - including many Trump-voting seniors - depend on
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Wow. Talk about making my point regarding how SS and its evil mandatory participation has dependency-leashed and corrupted minds on the supposedly Right side of Freedom.
Dependency is the opposite of Freedom. I'm a Free Republic type guy. I Rightly oppose the whole concept of fed level entitlements.
Govt has done this to your mind. It's not a good thing.
Yes, I get it. I'm a victim of SS too. I did not want to play, they forced me. Then spent my money. Now if we want to pretend we are getting our money back, it requires additional stealing from younger folks.
Force and/or fraud invalidate any phony notions that a program is somehow good. If it was good, you would not need force.
Do you support an option for folks to not participate in SS?
Do you support at least privatization so that you'd actually still own your money they confiscated with force?