Republicans need to accuse obama of starving kids and throwing grandma into the street.
I am sure the MSM will play along...
My wife died of cancer and I make more than 85.
F’n communist bastards... each and everyone of the communist bottom feeding community agitator weathermen traitor terrorists. F’em.
Obama will not save or cut our debt by as much as one thin dime. All that jerk is doing is finding another way of spreading the wealth to his special people.
It’s a start. I prefer to means test both Social Security and Medicare...but this is a step in the right direction.
We are $17T in debt...and cannot afford to subsidize the Winnebago Lifestyle anymore. My kids are already screwed for life enough as it is, and it’s getting worse by the year.
Know how sinister this is???
There is absolutely NO limit on your Gross earnings for paying into Medicare.
There is a FICA limit—just over $100,000.
But—If you are the CEO of Disney & make $50 million a year-—you will pay $1.45% of that 50 million into medicare...or if you are self employed—you will pay 2.90% into medicare.
Is an athlete considered self-employed by the IRS??? They each have separate contracts, which are negotiated only for the benefit of that person....by an agent!
If they are considered self-employed—like Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson, then they will pay 2.90% into medicare—without any limit.
How about Hollywood stars? Self-employed or employees???
I suspect self-employed—paying 2.90 into medicare...after they all have paid 12.4% into Social Security (FICA) up to the threshold limit of just over $100,000.
The people who pay the most into the system now are going to have to pay even more!!!
What a twist of accounting this is!!!
So when’s the chants start that the Democrats and Obama hates old folks?
LMBO!!
So, he's actually squeezing doctors until they stop taking medicare patients.
That's great. Just great.
Headlines
Democrat President: Obama Offers Plan to Save Medicare
Republican President: Seniors say President’s Plan Will Kill Them
A good many of the posts on this thread clearly demonstrates that CLASS AND GENERATIONAL WARFARE are alive and well.
He also wants to take one-quarter of one percent of the Social Security cost-of-living increase away (by changing the way inflation is calculated).
and by creating 9 new income brackets, most seniors will become classified incrementally as wealthy
slick, eh?
Howie Carr (Boston radio host) has said for YEARS that he would be willing to take a lump sum of the money in his SS ‘account’ (money that was paid in, and not a penny more), and he would handle his retirement on his own.