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Of the over 9 Million Veterans who rely upon Social Security for benefits, 3.2 Million of them rely on benefits due to service-related disabilities.
Call President Obama TODAY and tell him: just say no.
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| By: Jacob Swenson Friday December 21, 2012 3:01 pm | |
Of the over 9 Million Veterans who rely upon Social Security for benefits, 3.2 Million of them rely on benefits due to service-related disabilities.
Call President Obama TODAY and tell him: just say no.
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14 Comments
No.
NoNoNo
Not just No, but Hell No.
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So do the children of dead soldiers and the widowed spouses
No.
Just a question. If the Rs won’t agree to extend the middle class tax rates unless there is a cut to SS, is,the answer still no. It is for me but then I don’t.much like the plutocrats.
The only hope we have of Obama not cutting Social Security is to have the Tea-Party derail a house vote again!
The “Middle Class Tax Cut” is the payroll tax holiday, right?
The payroll tax funds Social Security.
The Middle Class Tax Cut undercuts Social Security for our kids.
And then we triple team it with raising the retirement age, and
establishing the chained CPI.
Oh, and while Obie talks about raising taxes on the very wealthy, he doesn’t ever suggest eliminating the cap on Social Security payments, and have the very wealthy contribute to the program with a tax on all their income.
All this to craft a deficit reduction plan by wrecking a program that has nothing to do with the deficit.
Golly, the eleventy dimensional chess to screw our kids, our elderly, our sick and disabled, our poor, etc. is simply Breathtaking!
All this in deficit negotiations, fixing a program which has nothing to do with the deficit
I’ll say no, but because many humans, both veterans and non-veterans, are dependent on Social Security for literally their lives and they are not getting anywhere nearly enough to stay alive as it is. Oh, yes and because they paid into it, too.
As between a veteran and his mom or his sister, are we really going to say that the veteran has a superior right not to starve to death in old age after paying for insurance?
I agree, but ostensibly the purpose of this ad is to motivate others, whose putative patriotism elevates veterans to a revered status (except when they need a job or other assistance beyond what is offered by the military) to speak up on their behalf, because they fought and may have risked their lives “for our freedom”. There are a lot of misguided, non-critically-thinking folks out there, like those in the Tea Party, who equate freedom with the right to exploit and subjugate. Every such method that can be deployed to make them open their loud mouths in protest against this criminal policy proposal, is welcome regardless of its shallowness.
This is a good framing for modern day conservative rabidly pro-war Democrats who might be on the fence re a Grand Betrayal. Use the hagiography surrounding the military for some useful purpose for once.
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Can’t we discuss getting revenue thru a higher capital gains rate? Seems to me, we should discuss at least a 25% capital gains rate and see if we can’t do better than the current 15%. Or is this not the appropriate moment or place for that discussion?
Why shouldn’t capital gains be treated exactly the same as any other income?