Friday, December 16, 2016

How Republicans plan to 'save' Social Security: Massive benefit cuts for most, tax cuts for the rich

The newly introduced proposal from House Republicans to "save" Social Security is exactly what you'd expect: "saving" Social Security by destroying its promise of guaranteed benefits. Rep. Sam Johnson's (R-TX), the powerful Chairman of the Social Security Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee unveiled his plan last week, basically daring Presidential-popular-vote-loser-elect Donald Trump to renege on his campaign promise to protect the program. But because Johnson says it's a "plan to permanently save Social Security," a willfully uninformed Trump will probably go along with it. That, and the fact that it gives a tax cut to the rich....
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1610195


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