Posted on 09/18/2020 12:35:19 PM PDT by rintintin
Claim During his time in the U.S. Senate, Joe Biden cast two votes 10 years apart — one of them the deciding vote — in favor of legislation that taxed Social Security income.
Rating Mostly True
What's True While serving as a U.S. senator representing Delaware, Joe Biden voted for two pieces of legislation — once in 1983 and once in 1993 — that resulted in taxing some Social Security income of some recipients. ...
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A tax on a tax..... One of the hidden secrets of the ruling class..
SNOPES will either bury this or will change it from mostly-true to murky or some other grey classification. Even mostly-true is very bad for the DIMs.
As far as taxing Social Security only for “higher income” people the law said you would be taxed if you made more than $25,000 individually or $32,000 as a couple. That includes almost everyone who was actually working or had any income beyond Social Security.
Isn’t social security taxable for seniors now?
Pathetic. You pay into this thing your whole working life and the “benefits” get taxed if you dare apply yourself further and earn an income? Why should it matter to the Social Security Trust if the worker wants to work more? If anything it’ll continue to fund the soon-to-be-bankrupt trust.
The 1983 law passed with 47 Republican votes and was signed by Ronald Reagan.
Scaring seniors that they will lose their Social Security if Republicans win is used by the Democrats every election.
The amount that is taken out of your income for Medicare also increases dramatically as your income goes up.
I would have rated it as "just about entirely true except for one microscopic point"
I am afraid the gipper failed us on that along with the GOP
Up to 85%....unless you didnt plan accordingly.
The actual fact is that it is TRUE. Without Biden’s vote, there would not have been a tie which then is decided by the VP’s vote.
So Snopes has already moved a TRUE to a Mostly True in an attempt to cover Biden’s back side.
The actual fact is that it is TRUE. Without Biden’s vote, there would not have been a tie which then is decided by the VP’s vote.
So Snopes has already moved a TRUE to a Mostly True in an attempt to cover Biden’s back side.
If as you say,it’s already taxable, then why does Joe Biden have to vote to tax it, unless there was a time when social security was NOT taxable?
HE DARN SURE DID!!!
HE WANTED TO TAX YOUR SOCSEC CHECK!@!
I do recall one thing for sure and this is or was if social security was to be taxed or not, at the time pompous lard a$$ Al Gore who was vice president at the time acted as a tie breaker to pass the law that social security was to be taxed.
Good fact for Trump to mention during the debates.
Yes, but it is proportional.
In some cases. I’d have to dig out my booklet and look up specifics, but according to the IRS website, if your other income and HALF your social security add up to more than $25,000, filing single, then you may have to pay taxes.
Most people making social security only will probably not have to pay any taxes.
I’m thinking in my booklet it said something about $16,000 or $17,000, I’ll have to look it up. Mabe that’s the “half your SS” part, different way of figuring it. You can make up to $16,000 or $17,000 in addition to SS and still not have to pay taxes on it. I’d have to look it up.
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/are-social-security-benefits-taxable
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