“It will be my objective to phase out Social Security." - Sen. Mike Lee says the quiet part out loud.

Stop whining. Here is a list of subsidies that are given out so that the wealthy's stock portfolio climbs and climbs.
Corporate welfare is just fine, right?
/—-/ No corporate welfare. OK?
 
You mean spouses of workers who have died?
the spouse who died paid in, it's the way the children of parents who die get their payments as well. arguing apples and oranges since we're still discussing people who actually paid in.
 
Stop whining. Here is a list of subsidies that are given out so that the wealthy's stock portfolio climbs and climbs.
Corporate welfare is just fine, right?
tax break is not a subsidy. for fk sake stop with this disinformation
 
I agree to reduce the federal government, like BATF, DEA, TSA, Homeland Security, etc.
But it would still take over a decade to pay back the $37 trillion we owe.
And SS provides trillions in surplus that help fund everything the government does.
I don’t want the Government doing much of ANYTHING. Every social program, every education, energy, and foreign assistance program. All foreign military spending. It all needs to go. At least half the Federal Government spending and probably more.

If it takes a decade to clear it up, then it takes a decade I’m sure you’d hate my take on how to determine how much we can even put in the budget.
 
Two Key words... phase out...
social security really does not give people enough to live on as it is... so if it goes away in 25 years and is replaced with a better plan that would be a good thing...
So what's Lee's plan to replace it? He doesn't have one because Lee is a MAGA fringe right wing Trump asslicking shitheel.
 
How does that solve the problem?
If a rich guy pays twice as much in and gets twice as much out, it still goes broke.
The only way that works is if you uncap the tax but cap the benefit. But it’s not a tax it’s your money except the government argued against that to SCOTUS when it was reviewing the constitutionality of SS.
 
Its the same as using Boeing or Lockheed to design jets, SpaceX is a company that you pay for space services, like getting to the space station.
Not if there is no NASA. Thats like getting rid of the Pentagon because Boeing makes the F35 for them.

But it won't happen. Musk needs those sweet sweet multibillion government contracts. And now he us in charge...
 
One is a hand out, the other is keeping one’s own money
Right. So, on the one hand, the government gives you $1000 tax break for doing what you're told. Or they give you a $1000 subsidy for doing what you're told. You can parse semantics, but your bank account certainly won't see a difference. Free money is free money.
 
Not if there is no NASA. Thats like getting rid of the Pentagon because Boeing makes the F35 for them.

But it won't happen. Musk needs those sweet sweet multibillion government contracts. And now he us in charge...

The US government isn't the only buyer for cheap, reliable orbital launches.
 
So what's Lee's plan to replace it? He doesn't have one because Lee is a MAGA fringe right wing Trump asslicking shitheel.
There are several ideas that have been proposed... like placing a retirement program aligned with the stock market... or going private... take it away from the feds and allow private retirement insurance companies to handle it... anything but what we have now because what we have now is bankrupted and doesn't even cover folks basic needs and the account is empty with a shoebox of IOU's in it...
We have never had so many over 70's going back to work... and that's a tragedy when you consider we are funding Ukraine's retirement system for them...
 
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