Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Saturday that one of his top priorities, once he takes control of the chamber’s Social Security Subcommittee in January, will be to lift the cap on taxable income that funds the program and increase benefit payments by at least $2400 per year.
Top priority should be removing the cap on deductions so it’s funded.
Then once the wealthy are paying into it, increase payments.
We could probably spend less money on the baby killing machine that makes psychopath soldiers.
What!? And let our military shrink to only 600% the size of the next largest military ?
It’s funny how some people, (not you frisbird) who claim to be lefties and say they hate Trump, go ape shit the moment you touch the military budget.
Fucking posers.
“I needed education in my shitty country so I killed people but that makes me okay because my country is shitty! I’m innocent”
Why is there no guillotine emoji?
We can obviously spend less on the military, but that’s not how OASDI is funded…
You also don’t know anything about the military apparently
They can free up that money and allocate it elsewhere.
ETA Pentagon never passed an audit.
The military industrial complex is not complex if you have half a brain.
I really need to start checking account ages…
https://lemmy.world/post/54084389/26765695
You’re running around saying:
No I think Dems need to kill a few people. They won’t of course and this comment will be moderated to keep Americans from rising up! ;)
And calling other people psychopaths
I always check account ages. Anything your age is suspiciously part of the problem.
Enjoy the country you definitely fought to make like this.
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Enjoy the country you definitely fought to make like this.
So now I fought against the American military?
Yes, let’s make seniors, the most coddled generation in history, our first priority.
Edit: I’m not saying we shouldn’t do this. I’m saying it’s obvious that boomer seniors, as a generation, are the most privileged people in this country’s history, both because of economic environment and by government benefits across their life span.
Don’t shoot the messenger.
That’s certainly a take I suppose.
But yeah, let’s not shore up Social Security for all Americans including future generations to be able to not go homeless after they suffer a disability or worked until their bodies are broken and just keep the future generations working until they die at work.
Sounds like a great plan there, let’s be short sighted to be a petty bitch.
If we’re worried about homelessness, why isn’t housing the first priority?
Yeah, no moving goal post here buddy.
I’m not. You’re intrepreting me as saying I don’t think we should raise SS. I think we should. I’m asking why it should be the first priority. You reply we should do it first to prevent homelessness–so you are introducing an issue that is more important.
First off, let’s get the wording clear here. The statement was “one of his top priorities” not first priority.
Second, if you think that we should remove the cap off of social security then we’re done here. You, think that the removal of the cap is necessary, I think it’s necessary, Sanders thinks it’s necessary. We’re all in agreement, huzzah! The fact that if it’s first, second, third, which again was not the wording being used, is moot outside of your disdain of the elderly.
Huzzah!
Young people receive social security benefits too, like SSDI and survivor payments. I’ve been on SSDI myself since before I was 30 years old.
I’ve been on, too. But why are people with plenty of assistance already the first priority? Just seems weird and indicative of leadership ignoring younger generation’s problems and prioritizing boomers, but I’m not against it, of course.
Honestly $200 extra a month might help ease the burden on our loved ones, that’s only two weeks of groceries for a lot of households right now. Just a personal example, the entirety of my grandmother’s benefits goes to her housing (high cola). My uncle pays her medical bills, and he’s the only one who has any money to spare. My sibling buys her groceries. I buy her clothing and other necessities as I can, but I’m essentially in the same financial situation she is. The rest of her family is dead, and in 3-5 years she may only have my sibling left to help her.
So, yes, Bernie might be slapping a bandaid on this elderly poverty problem with a possibly easy win, but it’s a starting point for further taxing the billionaires. And if we’re lucky the momentum from that will also fix education, medical access, housing, and the rest of what we know we need as a healthy society
It’s not really taxing billionaires since SS taxes income on labor, but I agree, it’s necessary to do, along with a long list of other things that need more involved legislative scaffolding.
plenty of assistance
Well, you clearly don’t know what social security pays. Please do a little googling and educate yourself.
All the other forms of assistance seniors qualify for, including low-cost transportation, low-cost housing options, food delivery, tax relief, not to mention medicare, etc.
20-somethings struggling to find work have much fewer supports.
Please educate yourself.
Willful ignorance is such a sad thing to see. Good-bye.
https://aging.ca.gov/Programs_and_Services/
People are so fucking stupid when they get tribal.
You realize a substantial portion are poor?
I’ll be one of them in not too long. Right now I’m just poor.
Then you should know better. Keep the
TACtax on social security income, for payments over a certain amount.Crappy Auto-Incorrect
Crab bucket crab bucket 🦀🦀🦀
We could do this and all the other things at the same time. If this is one thing on a laundry list of fixes, would you object to it just because you aren’t getting social security yet? Singling out an aid for people to not get because of who they are and/or because you won’t get that benefit is what we complain about with MAGA.
I put this next to the quote from veterans who say “I don’t agree with what you say, but I fought for your rights to say it.” I’m right with you on blaming Boomers for where we are and why, but I’ll still support making sure old people don’t have to decide between rent, meds, or food. Even if some of them are hypocrites who made the world this way after being handed everything.
I’m onboard, too, just wondering what it means that it’s the first priority. I hope it’s just that it’s the easiest way to help the most people in the least time.
