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Raise the Social Security and Medicare eligibility age to 70.
Means test Social Security and Medicare.
Eliminate all federal subsidies.
I'm sure you all can come up with other ideas that would actually reduce spending when you put your alleged minds to it.
As I said, yes, you can cut spending. You can cut anything. Cut it out of existence. But you have to look at the big picture. For example, raising the retirement age will have the affect of people staying in the work force longer. Right now, we WANT people to retire and free up jobs for younger workers. How does keeping older workers in the work force longer help us achieve that? It doesn't.
Raise the retirement age, and you're going to see unemployment go up, which will mean more spending on safety net programs.
Big picture guys.
The big picture is that we are living longer, so we should be working longer. Life expectancy was 60 when Social Security was created. When life expectancy hits 100, do you expect people to collect Social Security and Medicare for one third of their lives?
6 percent of Americans were over 65 in 1935 when SS was created. Today, 13 percent of Americans are over 65. We have literally more than doubled our Social Security entitlement load.
Raising the eligibility age to 70 means contributing five years more, and drawing out five years less.
Massive savings.
As for the imagined labor problem, is there a bigger unemployment problem now than when the average life expectancy was 60? How about when it was 50?
No. And no.
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Nothing.
It's fine.
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By all means..
Let's cut spending and raise taxes
Only way to cut into a $15 trillion debt. Sacrifice must be made by all
By all means..
Let's cut spending and raise taxes
Only way to cut into a $15 trillion debt. Sacrifice must be made by all
As long as those cuts don't interfere with all the Government free stuff for those who don't contribute of course.
of course!
As long as those cuts don't interfere with all the Government free stuff for those who don't contribute of course.
of course!
Of course we are not expecting our most wealthy to make any sacrifices.....that would be un-American
of course!
Of course we are not expecting our most wealthy to make any sacrifices.....that would be un-American
Much more American to make those who currently "don't contribute", make them pay more.
Lazy disabled people and seniors.
Of course we are not expecting our most wealthy to make any sacrifices.....that would be un-American
Much more American to make those who currently "don't contribute", make them pay more.
Lazy disabled people and seniors.
Nope. only the Lazy Welfare Abusers.. mostly people who just don't feel like WORKING!
Much more American to make those who currently "don't contribute", make them pay more.
Lazy disabled people and seniors.
Nope. only the Lazy Welfare Abusers.. mostly people who just don't feel like WORKING!
Ever looked at how many of them there are?
of course!
Of course we are not expecting our most wealthy to make any sacrifices.....that would be un-American
Much more American to make those who currently "don't contribute", make them pay more.
Lazy disabled people and seniors.
As long as those cuts don't interfere with all the Government free stuff for those who don't contribute of course.
of course!
Of course we are not expecting our most wealthy to make any sacrifices.....that would be un-American
of course!
Of course we are not expecting our most wealthy to make any sacrifices.....that would be un-American
The wealthy pay their fair share already...except Obama's favorite company GE.