By they way, anyone who took seriously the no-tax-at-withdrawal promises on the various government IRA plans is a fool.
The fix will be to extend the payroll tax to every penny of income, blowing by the current 100K and change cap. It gets 70%+ approval in polling. The GOP will eventually cave and sign on.
“Republicans will risk political pushback to put entitlement programs on the agenda during the presidential election.”
Why bother? Even the Republican boomers won’t accept reform, so it’s a losing issue.
Neither seem to be able to hold down a job due to their "disabilities", yet they seem to have no difficulty at all pursuing extracurricular activities such as camping and yardwork.
They know how to work the system, and I'm sure they're not a rarity.
When was it, exactly, that the money that I paid in to the government with the promise of getting it back later became an ‘entitlement’?
The author is putting out bait (she’s posted similar items in the past) that she hopes the Republican candidates bite on so the ‘RATS and the media can crucify them leading up to the 2016 election.
The only candidate I can see with the backbone to speak the truth about entitlements is Ted Cruz. The rest will run for the hills.
-PJ
Hope so. Gets real frustrating interviewing clients at a local food/clothing/etc bank when they're telling me they are on SSDI due to a "bad back" or "frequent headaches."
They are ripping us off to the tune of $750-850 every month. Plus they're on food stamps and the "lucky" ones are living in tax payer supplied government housing.
All of those "benefits" easily add to $2000/month or more.
I don’t know about yours but MY SS is NOT entitlement, I worked hard to secure it. I resent those that call it that.
Kiplinger hates Republicans. Really. Wouldn’t trust anything they say.
Reward the caregivers for doing shoddy, cheap work? That'll save money.
Solution....don't get sick.