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If we don’t rein in federal spending, analysts are warning we could see Social Security become insolvent within a decade. Good news is the

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has a plan to cut spending so that we can save social security for future generations. Let's pass! politico.com/news/2020/05/1

2:26 PM · May 18, 2020

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Start with donating your salary and corporate bribes. Also are you still working with the

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Something something illegals something been happening past a decade.

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36 million Americans have applied for unemployment and Jim Banks wants to slash spending on healthcare and other social services. Of course the defense contractors who fund his lifestyle will keep getting hundreds of billions of tax dollars.

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Let me guess: it involves cuts to social security and/or privatization.

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False dichotomy. We do NOT need to rein in federal spending in order to "save" Social Security. The very, very last thing the US needs right now is austerity. Your plan to balance the budget will hurt the Americans already bearing the brunt of our broken system.

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Each and every government agency must submit a mission statement for review. Any non specific statements gets 50 percent cut. All overlapping work gets simplified with resulting cuts. All feel good and non essential programs that can be state or community led get stopped.

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Educated people agree that the Trump tax scam was irresponsible in every way. The GOP wants to take away out Social Security that hard working Americans have paid into and earned. tRump supporters got conned and it hurts all of us.

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Federal spending has absolutely nothing to do with social security, which is a separate fund. The only way the federal deficit has any effect on the social security fund is if the U.S. defaults on its bonds, which will of course never happen.

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Social Security is Strong and it Deserves more Support

Last month the Social Security Trustees published their annual report on the state of Social Security. Although two of the appointed trustee positions are vacant and the Trump administration has...

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"Our country’s tax code is built to serve only those who have the most money. While hedge fund managers, private equity executives and venture capitalists benefit from the carried interest tax loophole, everyday Americans barely get a deduction." forbes.com/sites/camiloma

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You don't care about saving social security. Repeal the #GOPTaxScam #CorporateWelfare? A fiscally concerned congressman would be screaming to do it. But, that's not you. You're only interested in helping rich people, while hurting poor ones.