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Mar 23Liked by Joe Mayall

To dissemble is to lie or disguise your true intentions . To disassemble is to take something apart. While conservatives dissemble often, they’ve made no secret of their intentions to disassemble social security.

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Mar 20Liked by Joe Mayall

A fine solution for taxing the wealthy, but it's a shame you premise is based upon such faulty, outdated reasoning. A country with a sovereign currency can never become insolvent. It can always meet its obligations. Funding SS is a political issue, not an economic one. Please take 5 minutes to read something about MMT (modern monetary theory). It will prevent idiotic discussions about 'running out of money.'

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I'm in favor of anything that helps working people maximize their hard-earned wages, but it's misguided to say this is a partisan issue. Both Dems and Reps have rich friends and the game is let's keep arguing so that nothing ever changes. Don't believe that? Did the Clintons administration change this? Did Obama? They had two terms each to get it done.

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Social Security is theft, pure and simple. My generation will never see a penny. The fucking cocksuckers who invented it are long dead and good riddance to their evil souls, but they at least collected from their scheme to rob the next generation.

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Removing the cap and applying the tax to capital gains are not the same thing. I am in favor of applying the tax to capital gains at the self employment rate but I am against raising the tax on workers. Ideally we should abolish the pay toll tax for social security and fund it entirely with taxes on capital gains.

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