The republicans want to cut social security Medicare Medicaid spending to pay for the Deficits/debt ceiling.Social Security is headed toward insolvency if something isn't done. Democrats have claimed Republicans want to take social security away for decades. Even though Republicans have been in charge numerous times in those decades, social security is still here, so it has always been democratic fear mongering. Why are democrats against making social security solvent? It appears THEY are the ones who want social security to end.
This is very wrong to do, because for decades social security surplus....our money, over collected from us for our own retirements, was borrowed and used by congress to reduce the deficit for what INCOME taxes collected was suppose to fund and pay.
Now, congress can't afford to pay back social security surplus funds that they borrowed from social security.... So they are going to cut our social security benefits, instead of paying us back for funding the general spending of the congress.
So, instead of progressive income tax money paying for expenditures, the wealthiest who would owe IRS taxes to pay the general spending bills, by using SS money to pay the bills.....the wealthiest who do not pay SS TAXES on their entire salary, get an IRS type tax break, on our (S.S.) payer's backs.