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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?
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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. 🙄