Posted on 12/02/2017 7:19:50 AM PST by Mariner
Florida Senator Marco Rubio admits that the Republican tax cut plan to aid corporations and the wealthy will require cuts to Social Security and Medicare to pay for it.
Rubio told reporters this week that in order to address the federal deficit, which will grow by at least $1 trillion if the tax plan passes, Congress will need to cut entitlement programs such as Social Security. Advocates for the elderly and the poor have warned that entitlement programs would be on the chopping block, but this is the first time a prominent Republican has backed their claims.
We have to do two things. We have to generate economic growth which generates revenue, while reducing spending. That will mean instituting structural changes to Social Security and Medicare for the future, Rubio told a crowd at a Politico conference. Rubio's talk of structural change is vague, but will likely include changing the rate and age of Social Security and Medicare payouts.
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On Wednesday Mr. Rubio and his political sidecar, Mike Lee of Utah, announced that theyll file an amendment to the tax bill to change the $2,000 child tax credit. They want to make the credit refundable up to a persons payroll tax liability, among other expensive tweaks. To pay for the changes, Messrs. Rubio and Lee would increase the corporate tax rate to 22% from the bills 20%. If Mr. Rubio thinks payroll taxes are too high, he can propose a payroll tax cut. But then hed have to weather the political fight of going after funding for Medicare and Social Security.
My mentally ill niece's went through the first time, but she had been declared legally insane.
Less than half of applications are ultimately approved, an that's after going through all levels of appeals.
It's not easy to get. No one who has any other options at all is going to go through all that crap for a measly $800 a month check.
I don't think people like you realize just how hard it is to get awarded SSDI. You seem to think that a person just walks into a Social Security office, says they're depressed or their back hurts, and they're cut a check right on the spot. That's not the way it is at all, and I know whereof I speak, because I have a niece who has been on it for 17 years. She was raped and consequentially developed schizoaffective disorder. Over the next year she was repeatedly involuntarily hospitalized for suicide attempts. Now she is stable but has to take three different powerful tranquilizing medications a day which means she falls asleep at least once a day. She also constantly talks to herself. If you can find anyone willing to hire her, she'll be glad to take the work at any legal pay rate since it's certainly more than the pitiable $745 a month check she gets.
Do you think she's a "faker?"
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