Posted on 12/22/2011 12:06:01 PM PST by Slyscribe
Washington is engaging in a game of chicken over the payroll tax holiday, but this likely won't be the last time Congress and the White House try to extend it. Some say it will become a "permanently temporary" feature of American politics. And the consequences could be dramatic.
"We could be having this conversation 15 years from now and talking about how President Obama, as a Democrat, was the president that started the path to killing Social Security," said Jason Fichtner, a senior fellow at the libertarian Mercatus Center.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
Social security is already dead if you are under the age of 30.
Jason is just making a political point :)
(Good guy by the way, but being silly here)
The US government also has RESOURCES that can be titled over to any beneficiaries left over from the good old days.
Nah, they won’t end it they will pretend it.
SS will now be funded 100% by fiat money and new debt.
Because Obama needs votes.
I read a story out of Kalipornia where there was a dead guy paid $7.7 million in pension after working as a Capitol aide in Sacramento for 22 years. Those guys paid in NOTHING.
“We could be having this conversation 15 years from now and talking about how President Obama, as a Democrat, was the president that started the path to killing Social Security,”
Yeah maybe “we” would. Everyone else would be blaming the Pubs.
Indeed they would. BTW, did anyone see an AP (associated Pravda) story about how the economy is improving, consumer confidence is up, etc. etc. Biggest bunch of horsecrap I've read lately. If Bush were still in office, they'd be talking about Great Depression II.
social security will never “go broke” as long as they can print money.
I think Congress should take action to close ERISA to any state or local retirement program. That way we can protect ERISA from about the largest collection of fraudulent retirement schemes known to mankind.
We would all be Hearing it 24/7 Now if a Republican had proposed this farce,Oh wait, George W Bush wanted to let the Younger people to put 2% of their money into their own account and I thought the world was going to end,now this marxist is going to cost the Social security System 250 billion dollars and he ios a Hero. Folks you get what you deserve and the American People elected this guy and are in for it, and the Morons dont know what is going to Hit them as soon as they reelect this scumbag
I was hoping the Congress would allow business FICA payments as an allowable deduction if and only if the employee on whose behalf they were being made was verified to be legally in the United States by e-verify.
That particular question ~ ILLEGALS TAKING AMERICAN JOBS ~ is certainly of high value, and maybe even higher value than the Keystone project.
The republicans are going to lose on both these issues. And they can’t be so stupid as to think otherwise.
This whole thing has been a sham and I’m ashamed to have drank the cool aid. The republicans took the house. It was planned so there would be someone to blame. But the dems kept the senate, with help from the republicans, so they could stop the house from stopping obama.
Now they volunteer to get smeared as raising taxes on working people and cutting off unemployment at Christmas.
They’ll nominate Romney so the press can say the “right wing racist tea partiers” stayed home whether they stay home or not.
obama will be re-elected. The dems will take back the house (though that’s really not neccessary). And the GOP is in on the scam.
I’ve started wearing a tin foil hat when it comes to the two parties. But I know longer think everything is about to collapse and I’m going to start eating my stored food.
ALL part of the plan. Cut unemployment and the unemployment numbers go down because less people are drawing it. And the GOP volunteered to take the blame for no checks while obama gets the credit for putting people back to work.
Yesterday I mentioned a way to finally be rid of that socialist Ponzi Scheme. I will repeat what I said:
I have an idea:
If the Democrats think this “tax cut” is good for the economy, why not make it for the full FICA withholding amount of both individual and employer and make it permanent. Then, those who paid into it all their lives and ready to retire will have sufficient amount in their part of the “lock box” to collect it as planned. Those people who contributed a percentage their working years will get that percentage of back from the “lock box” at retirement and then they can use the remaining working years to build a real retirement savings.
Social Security problem solved.
What? No “lockbox”? My, that is a problem, huh?
Where is AARP? Any other time someone mentions touching social security they scream bloody murder. No where to be found on this one.
We shouldn’t reduce the payroll tax; we should increase it because that would mean the 48% of those who don’t pay taxes will at least pay this.
RED HERRING ALERT, Those in the district of criminals have to have these kinds of charades in order to keep our attention off the real issues, of which are too numerous to list but way too damaging to the those in government if allowed to completely surface. Returning the governance of this nation to the confines of constitutional principles would reverse much of what has caused our nation's erosion into the corrupt status of it's current state.
“Where is AARP?”
Defending their Democrat buddies of course.
“Payroll Tax Cut Doesn’t Impact Social Security”
http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/23974-1
“We shouldn’t reduce the payroll tax; we should increase it because that would mean the 48% of those who don’t pay taxes will at least pay this.”
We have a Winner!
That is exactly why they went after this cut rather than a normal federal income tax cut. That way the people who already pay NOTHING toward federal income taxes would get a cut.
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