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How do you feel about McConnell calling for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid cuts after passing a 1.5 trillion tax cut for the top 1%?

Is American Social Security not paid to give some level of financial help in times of need?

Social Security is taken out of every worker's paycheck. If you don't work, you can't draw funds from it, (widows, widowers, etc. are the exception). Social Security is not an "entitlement" as the Republicans keep saying. It is not theirs to give away. Each of you has individual accounts you’ve paid into for decades. That’s why your “benefit” is predicated on your contributions. This is your money, not a handout. Many Americans rely on this income to live on when they retire (albeit a small one) or income to live on if they become disabled. It is all the retirement income many have.

By cutting Social Security to reduce the debt (caused by tax cuts for the rich), is this not money flowing from the general population up to the rich?

Actually, is this not theft...

Is there a Republican brave enough to answer this question for me?
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
The entire purpose of the GOP is redistribution of wealth upwards. They politically organize along social lines to motivate the base, but this is what they're here for. Mass looting of the public sector.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
I'm still trying to figure out how to cut income taxes to people who do not pay income taxes. When you figure that one out, let me know
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@sunsporter1649 We simply should have stayed out of that one altogether when the French decided to bail. Coming between people and their country is rarely a good idea.

And you obviously never learned anything from the Korean experience.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@QuixoticSoul Kennedy screwed up the Bay of Pigs so badly he decided to do something to wipe the egg off his face. Another example of not having a clue how to conduct a war
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@sunsporter1649 Should have stayed out of that one too. When people are done with colonialism, they tend to be done.
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QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@RippinKlouds They can’t see past their dread fear of Mexicans the homosexual agenda.
@bijouxbroussard This one is brilliant.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
This was very predictable. I told friends at the time that this would be the result of the tax cut for billionaires.

And yes, this is a shifting of wealth from the nation to the top few percent. Nothing less.
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Wol62 · 51-55, M
@TheyWhoseNameCanNotBeSpoken Welcome to Trump's America!
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Sicarium · 46-50, M
False premise. Everyone who pays taxes benefited from the tax cuts, not just then 1%. Stop with the talking points, be real. More gets accomplished.
SWMae · 26-30, F
@Sicarium

WTF are you even talking about?

What decades of underfunding public education gets you...
Wol62 · 51-55, M
@Sicarium I don't say so, it's simple economic science. Even the founding fathers thought so too! Read Benjamin Franklin, he agrees! Can you believe that are fucktard libertarians and Republicans who will argue that employers will not try to keep the tax cut from their employees! 😂😂.
Yeah, because business men and woman always ignore opportunities for efficiencies! 😂😂
Wol62 · 51-55, M
@Sicarium No, Adam Smith does not confuse the two, please read him and Franklin and they will explain it to you in clear and concise language.
They’ll simply declare it “fake news” or launch into “whataboutism”. Republicans who are pensioners living in luxury trailer homes are required to vote against their own best interests, after all; any advantage they receive might also go to people of color and/or immigrants. Can’t have that. 🙄
JoeyFoxx · 56-60, M
Well duh. The rich create jobs.

*noise from the back*

What??!! Really? They don’t?

Ok. New theory. The rich give to charity.

*more noise from the back*

Huh? Not that either?

Hmmm. Ok.

My last theory is that Mitch is a flaming pile of used dildos.
Platoscave · F
@JoeyFoxx or used

and useless dicks
SimplyTracie · 26-30, F
I’d say Kentuckians should vote him out but he prolly gets lotsa federal dollars for his home state. 🤷‍♀️

I believe you’re right. The biggest beneficiaries of the tax cut was the wealthy.
The majority of SW members might have a few more dollars in their paycheck to maybe buy a couple cases of beer. But that’s about it.

Cuts in SS and Medicare benefits hurts the people who needs it most.

McConnell does not care about the average American and probably less about the needy. 🙄
SW-User
I do hope this guy is voted out in 2020. He’s done much damage and is not afraid to do more.
katielass · F
Everyone who pays taxes got a tax cut, you retard.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@katielass Don't confuse the mind-numbed robots with facts, it upsets them
MrBrownstone · 46-50, M
We all pay into unemployment through work too. When you want to collect you have to apply. That’s government for ya.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@MrBrownstone Well then why wouldn’t your workplace have it 🤔

Damn Mehicans, trying to scam welfare once again!
MrBrownstone · 46-50, M
@QuixoticSoul Because I don’t work there anymore. That’s how the government can find out.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@MrBrownstone This situation leaves me very confused about what it is I’m supposed to be cope/seething about tbh 🤷‍♂️

Probably the Mohicans. Not so last, it seems.
SW-User
Government is corrupt. That is all.
Platoscave · F
it is grand larceny
MarkPaul · 26-30, M
It's not really theft in the conventional sense, but it does smack of hidden motives and promotion of self-interests over social needs. Technically, the Republicans gave up the party to the angry mob.
There is a LOT of waste, duplication and outright corporate welfare in the budget of the Department of Defense. $100 billion could be cut from the DoD budget without affecting our national security. If budget cuts are even necessary, cutting the DoD budget down to $620 billion will still provide our nation with the greatest military in the world by far.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@quitwhendone How old is that car you drive?
Platoscave · F
@quitwhendone Cut it out completely. Then we'll be a great COUNTRY.

Oh wait.

I am always alone everywhere.
Platoscave · F
Time to cut off his bloody JOB and SALARY and any kind of RESPECT from people or any kind of RESPECTABLE FUTURE.....

cause he is an opensore fetid OOZING monster from SATAN'S FOULEST BROKEN SEWER like his orange hero and there's no room for that in OUR HOUSE.

That's what I think about what that one did. Same answer for everything else they do too.
Budwick · 70-79, M
Is there a Republican brave enough to answer this question for me?

There WAS - George W. Bush - before 9/11
Called for close look at Social Security and solvency.
Bout got run outa town for that.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@Budwick But then he heard the Republican siren song, and took the biggest budget surplus in our nation's history, and turned it into the biggest deficit in our nation's history, in only two years.

 
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