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In reply to the discussion: Warren Proposes the Biggest Expansion of Social Security in 50 Years [View all]Johnny2X2X
(18,744 posts)27. It's about dignity
The disabled and the elderly cannot live in dignity with what the minimum is now, this would lift millions up towards a dignified existence.
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babylonsister
Sep 2019
OP
lift the cap, fine. scrap the cap, no. expand fica to investment income is the biggie.
mopinko
Sep 2019
#23
Social Security is not a "retirement benefit.". "Retirement" is nowhere in the law.
MadDAsHell
Sep 2019
#38
Why a wealth tax above $50 million? Make it a bloody $5 million. Get rid of the zero!
DemocracyMouse
Sep 2019
#7
Perhaps because if her wealth tax is annual, the 5 million would be gone in 50 years.
KPN
Sep 2019
#22
At LEAST raise the cap. Rep Sean Duffy said he couldn't survive on $176,000 / year.
usaf-vet
Sep 2019
#15
Bingo....................the rich do not have to pay on anything above $132,900.01
turbinetree
Sep 2019
#24
Warren's new proposal leaves a donut hole for income between $132,900 and $250,000 a year,
highplainsdem
Sep 2019
#30
I know senior women living on 900 per month with 15 dollars in Food Stamps this is Florida
Oppaloopa
Sep 2019
#25
While I sure can use the $200/month, I don't think this is a good idea -- except at lowest levels -
Hoyt
Sep 2019
#26
But this proposal entails new taxes, though with a strange donut hole for income between
highplainsdem
Sep 2019
#29
What evidence to the contrary? And last night, she was right back on her "Economic Patriotism."
Hoyt
Sep 2019
#40
'Free Trade' was not popular in the midwest in 2016 (and still is not, but they're learning)
crazytown
Sep 2019
#41
Definitely not popular. They consider foreign workers scabs -- "Screw poor Mexicans, Vietnamese,
Hoyt
Sep 2019
#43
I'm not sure why we need to increase Social Security payments for those who are well off. And as
highplainsdem
Sep 2019
#28