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In reply to the discussion: Obama: Dems don't get enough credit for willingness to cut Social Security and Medicare [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)The world has always been changing. That doesn't mean SS is not still the most fiscally sound program ever and projected to be up to 75 years from now. One way to ensure this is to raise the cap and make everyone pay their fair share. That is one way the world has changed. We cannot afford any longer to support the wealthiest people as we have been doing.
Up to now, the working class has been paying their fair share and very successfully providing both for themselves and the next generation. But the wealthy have not been paying their fair share. That is what has to stop.
Ending the Bush tax cuts, raising the cap on SS is all that needs to be done, and increasing benefits for those who paid into the system, the money is theirs and there is plenty of it. That will make life easier for the most vulnerable people, we can afford it, AND it will help stimulate the economy.
But clearly they have succeeded in scaring people into thinking that they need to give up more of what they have saved and earned. That is what bothers me, that it is working. Bernie Sanders articulates the facts about all of this better than anyone. Now it's time for the Democratic Leadership to join him so that no working class person feels they need to give up any part of their SS benefits. They do not.