Trump/Republican “Good News” following Republican passage of The Republican Big Ugly Bill
Got a cheery (yes, it’s sarcasm) bit of propaganda from the new Social Security Administration under Trump this morning. The day after the Republicans passed the Big Ugly Bill.
The propaganda told me the good news that Social Security benefits are no longer going to be taxed. If that is true, great. However, the propaganda does NOT mention several very important points:
1. This is the first step in the Republican/Trump plan to eliminate Social Security altogether.
2. It is appeasement for those already receiving Social Security benefits to help them “look the other way” in the future actions the republicans may take to further decimate the program.
3. Republicans think they are doing a good service by eliminating this crucially important safety net for their own ludicrous and unknown reasons. They don’t talk about them except to call Social Security socialism or some other such bullshit smear. What Social Security is can be thought of as a retirement bank account that Americans pay into every hour that they work from the time they begin working until they retire. It is an earned investment, not socialism, not fraud.
4. The truth is that Social Security is not broken and never has been broken. In fact, it has performed spectacularly since its inception. But Republicans and Trump, right now, are trying very hard to destroy and eliminate it permanently.
5. The truth about Social Security is that it can be easily improved, strengthened, expanded, and made permanently solvent very easily by removing the artificial cap on the upper limit of income that is taxed to pay into the Social Security Trust Fund. That’s it.
That single easy step would fix the problem of Social Security solvency and give the Social Security Administration the ability to expand benefits and make it a permanent program of retirement for hard working Americans.
So, the good, cheery bit of propaganda I got from the Social Security Administration this morning, the day after the Republicans passed Trump’s Big Ugly Bill, may be good news if indeed it is true that Social Security benefits will no longer be taxed. But that shouldn’t have happened in the first place anyway because it is double taxation for no good cause or reason. So, stopping double taxation for Social Security for working Americans is only the bare minimum thing that Republicans could have done to help rather than hurt working Americans. And it should be permanent.
But far better news yet will be when Congress finally fixes the problem of Social Security solvency by taking the very easy, very do-able step of removing the artificial cap on the upper limit of income taxed for it.
Oh, and it wouldn’t hurt if Congress returned the trillions of dollars that Congress has “borrowed” and promised to pay back from the Social Security Trust Fund to pay for disastrous and unsanctioned wars that didn’t do any good for anything or anyone.
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