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In reply to the discussion: Do you support Democrats' plan to ELIMINATE taxes on Social Security benefits? [View all]Fiendish Thingy
(15,836 posts)72. The deficit would soar
Unless, at the same time, the Trump tax cuts were repealed, billionaires paid their fair share, and the IRS was funded sufficiently to go after wealthy tax cheats.
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Do you support Democrats' plan to ELIMINATE taxes on Social Security benefits? [View all]
Buttoneer
Mar 2024
OP
A Bill with seven co-sponsors (none in Leadership) doesn't sound like its going anywhere.
brooklynite
Mar 2024
#6
Obama tried to do that and even Democrats blasted him calling it the "Catfood Commission."
Silent Type
Mar 2024
#20
Very familiar. In fact, since that time there were a few years where we would have fared better.
Silent Type
Mar 2024
#45
Hell yes. We already PAID a tax -- it IS a tax. It always feels like an insult to pay a tax on top of a tax.
Hekate
Mar 2024
#5
It is/originates in/ a payroll tax. I distinctly remember it coming out of my pitiful paychecks at age 15.
Hekate
Mar 2024
#19
Indeed, and for which I get taxed when I draw on it. I knew I could count on someone to quibble.
Hekate
Mar 2024
#24
I don't receive SS, and am not sure if it's actually insurance, but FICA means Federal Insurance Contributions Act.
ancianita
Mar 2024
#39
Yep. It's a crap shoot if one can actually claim what they & their companies contributed into it.
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2024
#23
No. I am required to collect SS at my age although I still work. I am pleased to pay taxes...
NNadir
Mar 2024
#34
As I am now of the age, I could receive said benefit (I am not taking it for 5 years)
liberal N proud
Mar 2024
#36
yes, early stupid ronald raygun attempt to privatize . we need to have a wealth tax again.
AllaN01Bear
Mar 2024
#42
Ain't gonna happen. Another irritant, those of us still working into 70s paying SS tax
Silent Type
Mar 2024
#46
Yes! Poor people like me get to pay into the feds because of this taxation.
onecaliberal
Mar 2024
#52
yes. but we need to fix ss fubding. we kill the cap + lower the %. greenspan's biggest fuckup.
pansypoo53219
Mar 2024
#55