Hawley, another RINO who has been in The Swamp for far too long. Means testing is a Valid mechanism for any Federal Gov’t social expenditure. If you are wealthy why on earth do you need a couple of grand from the Feds every month?
Another factor is the current life expectancy today versus that when SS was first implemented. People are living much longer today. Raising the age to compensate seems to me to be a commonsense answer to this issue.
Lastly, no one should ever rely on the gov’t for a damned thing. We have a Lifetime to plan. Use that time and plan for your old age. Never expect others to bail you out for your lack of planning. Ever.
If you are wealthy why on earth do you need a couple of grand from the Feds every month?
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Why do you NEED a gun?
I deserve that ss check because I paid for it, so stick the “means testing” where the sun don’t shine.
F that. I look at SS is a tax cut and not an intitlement.
Though I still heavily plan, my lifetime is coming to an end.
“We have a Lifetime to plan.”
Depends on your age and current health expectations.
YMMV.
“ Means testing is a Valid mechanism for any Federal Gov’t social expenditure.”
No, means testing is robbing people who paid in, and it’s based on the Marxist principle of grabbing money from people “according to their ability to pay”
The Republicans who want to cut Social Security never talk about cutting aid to foreign countries. That’s real welfare, and they’re all for it
“Never expect others to bail you out for your lack of planning. Ever.”
SS is not a damned “bailout.” I’ve paid into that system for 48 years. When it’s my time to collect, I’ll most assuredly collect.
“Means testing is a Valid mechanism for any Federal Gov’t social expenditure. If you are wealthy why on earth do you need a couple of grand from the Feds every month?”
I agree, particularly since the money collected in the name of Social Security was spent on social programs as fast as it came in...and that was because the country wanted the social programs AND the low income tax rates that Reagan gave us.
In any case, expect the arrows to come your way from ‘conservatives’ who simply want their piece of the crumbling United States government regardless of what it does to their kids and grand kids.
Any Republican who is inclined to cut these entitlements by even $1 … while also voting to piss away billions of dollars in sh!t-holes like Iraq and Ukraine … should go jump off a bridge before damaging the GOP brand for at least a generation.
Having paid into the fund with every salary check, everybody is entitled to the return on their investment in Social Security
Your discrimination against those with greater means is positively Black
Sorry but SS and Medicare fit the very definition of “entitlement”. I paid for (because I was forced to) so I am “entitled” to the benefit I paid for. It’s irrelevant whether I need it or not, I paid for it so it’s mine.