Excuse me, but we’re paying trillions on services for illegals and low-income “legal” immigrants. Stop those expenses first and then we can talk.”
Excuse me, but while bandaids are good they cannot cure a large gaping wound that requires many stiches to stop the bleeding, and that bandaid will not even stave off death in the meantime. It’s a great political talking point for the moment but it is not cure all for social security. It will get a lot of traction but will not solve social security essential problem, with has little to do with the illegals. The essential problem is that there is no true “trust fund”, just IOUs from the treasury that are now starting to come due, and no president or Congress has yet admitted that Social Plan adjustments, and tax changes, will have to be made in order to refinance the IOU’s social security has to cash in to keep paying benefits.
You spew rhetoric, no statistics. Fact is, our federal govt is an ocean of waste, at home and internationally. Massive cuts should come before anybody talks about trimming Social Security. Notice you’re focused on cutting Social Security, with no similar passion about cutting welfare and education and housing and hospitals for low income immigrants and illegals, or closing hundreds of our bases overseas. And no mention of raising taxes on wile hedge fund billionaires, or on foreign remittances by immigrants, or on imports worldwide , all of which Trump favored - and Romney/Ryan oppose. Your Romney/Ryan philosophy lost at the polls in 2012. Trumps support of Social Security won in 2016, carrying states where Romney Ryan Republicanism couldn’t compete. You have a purist libertarian philosophy that is great at everything except winning elections
“The essential problem is that there is no true “trust fund”, just IOUs”
Correct answer.
Here is the “trust fund”:
This is a long con—a ponzi scheme.
There are no “policy solutions” to Ponzi schemes.