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(32,139 posts)Chained CPI affects much more than Social Security
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Chained CPI affects much more than Social Security. It affects everyone, every social program, every human being in this country, who is affected by the Consumer Price Index.
It is a right-wing looting, a scam, and a regressive tax increase.
Democrats don't reject changes ONLY to Social Security. We reject assaults on human beings who have already been looted and laughed at by the one percent. We must reject ALL chained CPI proposals, even the slick ones that we are told will contain protections for Social Security recipients or "the most vulnerable."
Democratic Presidents should not be assaulting the 99 percent at all. Period.
I smell Republican and Third Way game playing, the goal of which is to justify implementing a chained CPI across the board in this country, and to justify it because some sort of protection for SS recipients will be included.
Democrats do not support a chained CPI, period. Adopting a chained CPI means saying "fuck you" to the disabled, to veterans, to federal retirees, and to the 99 percent.
Don't fall for the right-wing spin. We should not even be talking about this garbage.