Tag: social security

Trump’s Rage-Rant About Dems “Killing” Social Security Is a Big Tell

You can see this at play in Trump’s rant, which claims immigrants threaten the long-term solvency of Social Security and Medicare. That gets things exactly backwards: As many analysts have shown, more immigration would go a long way toward shoring up those programs, because immigrants would swell the ranks of working-age Americans, paying the taxes […]

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Trump’s Latest Rage-Rant Reveals a Major Political Weakness

You can see this at play in Trump’s rant, which claims immigrants threaten the long-term solvency of Social Security and Medicare. That gets things exactly backward: As many analysts have shown, more immigration would go a long way toward shoring up those programs, because immigrants would swell the ranks of working-age Americans, paying the taxes […]

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Republicans Say They Plan to Raise the Retirement Age. Believe Them.

“The amount of the judgment, with interest, exceeds $464 million, and very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude,” wrote attorneys Alina Habba, Clifford Robert, Christopher Kise, and John Sauer. Trump issued his own venom Monday night in a string of posts that his former fixer, Michael Cohen, interpreted as […]

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House Republicans Resurrect Plan to Gut Social Security and Medicare

“The amount of the judgment, with interest, exceeds $464 million, and very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude,” wrote attorneys Alina Habba, Clifford Robert, Christopher Kise, and John Sauer. Trump issued his own venom Monday night in a string of posts that his former fixer, Michael Cohen, interpreted as […]

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The Real Corruption Risk Facing Trump

This represented a major about-face. Trump had spent much of the GOP primary campaign insisting he was the one candidate who wouldn’t take an ax to popular entitlement programs. Indeed, his position on this issue helped him win the presidential nomination back in 2016, and surely helped again this year. Cutting Medicare and Social Security […]

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Trump Is Admitting Verbatim That He’d Gut Social Security and Medicare

“And then Congress said, well, they never, they ultimately, usually fail,” he continued on CNBC’s Squawk Box. “They are a gooch—like, extremely political, and they’re extremely subject to people called lobbyists who happen to be very, very talented, very good and very rich.” “I could have banned TikTok. I had it banned just about, I […]

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Trump Is Threatening to Gut Social Security. Take His Word for It.

“And then Congress said, well, they never, they ultimately, usually fail,” he continued on CNBC’s Squawk Box. “They are a gooch—like, extremely political, and they’re extremely subject to people called lobbyists who happen to be very, very talented, very good and very rich.” “I could have banned TikTok. I had it banned just about, I […]

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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Social Security?

Many Democrats support either eliminating Social Security’s cap on taxable wages, expanding the types of compensation subject to Social Security payroll taxes—fringe benefits like health insurance, for example—or increasing payroll taxes. “The problem has been that, over time, the amount of revenue that is subject to [Social Security payroll] tax has been declining, partially because […]

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How the Club for Growth Fell Out With Trump

As happened with many conservative and establishment groups, the Club for Growth made peace with Trump after his surprise election in 2016. And, as with many conservative and establishment groups, the Club for Growth was hoping to play Henry Higgins to the new president’s Eliza Doolittle. “David viewed his partnership with Trump as a way […]

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This Black Woman Has Been Fighting Over a Decade to Prove She’s Not Dead

On the conversation of how technology has been screwing over Black folks, let’s take Madeline-Michelle Carthen for a perfect, decades-old example. The Missouri woman had been fighting to prove to the government that she is in fact alive and not dead thanks to an error by the Social Security Administration. Damon Wayans Jr. Talks Raid […]

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