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In reply to the discussion: Warren Proposes the Biggest Expansion of Social Security in 50 Years [View all]crazytown
(7,277 posts)39. Nothing Warren can propose is going to satisfy you Hoyt.
You will never forgive her role in killing the TPP. You have suggested it cost Hillary the GE - against all the evidence to the contrary.
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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