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slightlv

(5,460 posts)
9. What a great, insidious way to defund Social Security and Medicare
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 06:03 PM
Apr 15

while looking like a populist doing it. Damn, these people are evil!!!!

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Would that not affect Soc Sec funding? returnee Apr 15 #1
Yup. Cutting FICA and end social security. travelingthrulife Apr 15 #4
Not really. A person pays the SS and Medicare tax on the total income earned. LiberalArkie Apr 15 #7
But he is in favour of the largest tax Increase on working class Americans, a very regressive tax. He voted for it. Bernardo de La Paz Apr 15 #2
He was just reelected last year leftieNanner Apr 15 #3
Okay thanks! BumRushDaShow Apr 15 #10
Agreed leftieNanner Apr 15 #12
Finally, a Republican that understands how to implement National Socialism Strelnikov_ Apr 15 #5
The Repubs have to run someone in '28 ... SomewhereInTheMiddle Apr 16 #22
How about just making the rich pay for once? doc03 Apr 15 #6
In the end, Runnin' Josh the Coward will just..... lastlib Apr 15 #8
What a great, insidious way to defund Social Security and Medicare slightlv Apr 15 #9
Here's a plan Josh OrangeJoe Apr 16 #20
Screw that little seditionist bastard. hadEnuf Apr 15 #11
Blue collar workers haven't gotten a real pay raise, partly because Repukes have BLOCKED any raise in Jack Valentino Apr 15 #13
Higher income people Picaro Apr 15 #14
Why not? Give the middle and lower classes a few pennies, while giving the rich millions, or even billions. patphil Apr 15 #15
What if BlueSpot Apr 15 #16
Eat me out, Josh. LudwigPastorius Apr 15 #17
Blatantly trying to cut funding for Social Security and Medicare IronLionZion Apr 16 #18
Reading the entire story, this is not a cut in FICA Deminpenn Apr 16 #19
Nope BAD IDEA! OrangeJoe Apr 16 #21
This proposal is NOT cutting FICA Deminpenn Apr 16 #25
A quick question OrangeJoe Apr 16 #26
But he votes for Trumps budget which last I heard kills the mortage interest Bengus81 Apr 16 #27
there are guys who just beg to be kicked in the nuts. nt Javaman Apr 16 #23
Never trust this guy. He's been a loser since his term as the Missouri Attorney General. HeartsCanHope Apr 16 #24
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