Republicans Will Cut Social Security And Medicare After Tax Plan Passes, Says Marco Rubio

Newsweak via Yahoo ^ | December 2nd, 2017 | Nicole Goodkind

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Mariner.

• The Rubio-Schumer Amendment: Florida's Republican tries to blow up the Senate tax reform

  On Wednesday Mr. Rubio and his political sidecar, Mike Lee of Utah, announced that they’ll 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 person’s 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 bill’s 20%. If Mr. Rubio thinks payroll taxes are too high, he can propose a payroll tax cut. But then he’d have to weather the political fight of going after funding for Medicare and Social Security.

[some other guy]

Unless you have a catastrophic illness like terminal cancer or end stage kidney failure, they almost always reject the first request.

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.

[some other guy]

And then cutting all the fakers on SS disability?

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?"