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America’s life expectancy is declining -- WahooMatt05 02/08/2023 2:33PM Couple more pandemics and the problem is solved! ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/08/2023 2:34PM You joke, but I bet the impact to social security funding -- BocaHoo91 02/08/2023 3:33PM Likely since it moved life expectancy down. SSA has probably taken that -- Seattle .Hoo 02/08/2023 5:36PM Also, why not increase what’s required to be paid in from 6.2 percent to -- hooshouse 02/08/2023 1:45PM Raising age limits should be a given because -- BKhoo 02/08/2023 4:47PM Counterpoint… -- tchoo 02/08/2023 5:49PM First thing I would do is remove the cap on income subject to tax then, -- 81_Hokie 02/08/2023 4:16PM There are 11,000,000 open jobs only 5,500,000 people looking for jobs. -- Lazarus 02/08/2023 1:25PM Answer is they would pay in a lot less than they expense the force onto -- TomKazanski 02/08/2023 1:39PM Maybe try editing that posts so people can understand it? ** -- HoodatB 02/08/2023 5:00PM ^^^ incoherent outburst ** -- WaxHoo 02/08/2023 3:29PM Tom, what do you do for a living? Serious question ** -- Plano Hoo 02/08/2023 2:47PM Hey, somebody's gotta skin and smoke all that possum roadkill... ** -- TomGlansAski 02/08/2023 3:30PM I guess he doesn't like tobacco or weed. ** -- 81_Hokie 02/08/2023 4:21PM Insanity or disbelief of reality are not good traits Tom. ** -- Lazarus 02/08/2023 1:46PM One of the best arguments for much needed immigration reform. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/08/2023 1:32PM Yep. Meanwhile we are losing talent to other countries. ** -- HoosWillWin 02/08/2023 2:19PM Is it true that il. immigrants pay more into the systems than they take? ** -- HoodatB 02/08/2023 1:48PM The 14 Most Common Arguments against Immigration and Why They’re Wrong -- Hoo TV 02/08/2023 3:48PM No ** -- TomKazanski 02/08/2023 3:01PM Look at above link Tom. ** -- HoodatB 02/08/2023 4:59PM Link? -- WaxHoo 02/08/2023 3:29PM Yes. Now imagine if they are here legally on work visas. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/08/2023 1:57PM Hear, hear ** -- WaxHoo 02/08/2023 1:34PM How about repealing every tax cut passed since George Bush Sr instead? -- HowieT3 02/08/2023 1:24PM Wait... you don't pay off the debt until you run a surplus. increasing -- 81_Hokie 02/08/2023 2:37PM This! ** -- WaxHoo 02/08/2023 1:33PM Social security doesn’t need to be cut… at least not by much. -- BocaHoo91 02/08/2023 12:59PM Impossible to do a sliding scale for social security? -- hooshouse 02/08/2023 1:36PM Sure. You just do it by benefit amount. So someone -- BocaHoo91 02/08/2023 1:58PM Would it make sense to keep the cap as is but allow it to kick in after -- Zhoo 02/08/2023 1:21PM You could... but I don't love that plan. It then turns social security -- BocaHoo91 02/08/2023 3:11PM I think there is a flaw in your logic... -- tchoo 02/08/2023 3:45PM It’s not a pyramid scheme because the -- BocaHoo91 02/08/2023 4:08PM Ok... -- tchoo 02/08/2023 4:37PM You can adjust as projections -- BocaHoo91 02/08/2023 5:10PM This will be a flame, but I don’t really care - -- Eusebia 02/08/2023 12:59PM I'm OK with that --- -- Skeets 02/08/2023 1:48PM This is true across the board. All that’s being proposed here is… -- Los Angeles Hoo 02/08/2023 1:04PM Or cutting taxes to reduce the deficit? ** -- 81_Hokie 02/08/2023 2:39PM Tax cuts should be pursued for three reasons… -- Los Angeles Hoo 02/08/2023 3:02PM Hasn't your hypothesis been disproven multiple times, for the Reagan tax -- southdenverhoo 02/08/2023 4:29PM You can’t prove or disprove the thesis… -- Los Angeles Hoo 02/08/2023 6:56PM Yep and ten years after the change we will be right back in same spot -- TomKazanski 02/08/2023 1:21PM Seriously, how do we get government dependency without SS and Medicare?!?!? ** -- ResistHoo 02/08/2023 12:38PM Obamacare was a great effort in this cause. Well done! ** -- Los Angeles Hoo 02/08/2023 1:23PM Net positive, so yes ** -- HoodatB 02/08/2023 5:01PM I have to say, for being a Republican idea, Obamacare hasn't been too bad. -- southdenverhoo 02/08/2023 1:59PM If only St Ronnie had proposed universal health care instead of Tricky Dick ** -- Hoo TV 02/08/2023 3:25PM That is establishment Republicanism in a nutshell, isn’t it?… -- Los Angeles Hoo 02/08/2023 2:10PM V the GOP healthcare plan: don’t get sick, and if you do, -- WaxHoo 02/08/2023 1:34PM Nope. -- DanTheFan 02/08/2023 12:32PM You’d be focusing on the other 50% (or even just 20 or 30%) who rely less -- hoolstoptheheels 02/08/2023 12:58PM SS is a broad-based program that has worked. -- DanTheFan 02/08/2023 1:07PM I sort of disagree with that. -- hoolstoptheheels 02/08/2023 1:50PM I would take a SS cut if the government allowed me to keep my FICA taxes ** -- Zhoo 02/08/2023 1:06PM Yes but you wouldn’t blow it all on rent and beer -- 111Balz 02/08/2023 1:09PM I would be happy to have it put in a mandated account -- Zhoo 02/08/2023 1:16PM This would be along the lines of my preferred solution. -- hoolstoptheheels 02/08/2023 1:52PM He didn't say for all ** -- psychobilly 02/08/2023 12:49PM I agree. SS is easy...just push out the age in which you can receive FULL -- GoochlandHoo 02/08/2023 12:10PM Single payer. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/08/2023 12:54PM I'd want to see more details on what that is and how it would -- GoochlandHoo 02/08/2023 1:20PM There are variations, but it is essentially government run payment system, -- Seattle .Hoo 02/08/2023 1:44PM I like the pay...and then get reimbursed -- GoochlandHoo 02/08/2023 5:46PM I don't think that's true at all, particularly when you're talking about -- Seattle .Hoo 02/08/2023 7:48PM Didnt say insurance doesnt pay...but doctors dont get paid.. -- GoochlandHoo 02/08/2023 8:23PM UK is a cautionary tale on treating that as a cure-all. Or a cure at all. -- hoolstoptheheels 02/08/2023 1:04PM UK is not single payer. It is a national government health system. We want -- Seattle .Hoo 02/08/2023 1:05PM Yes. Big difference from UK health system. ** -- DanTheFan 02/08/2023 1:09PM Or change the contribution amount. Agree SS -- 111Balz 02/08/2023 12:46PM Or both. We need to make our hc more efficient. It is a $$$ runaway train -- GoochlandHoo 02/08/2023 1:17PM Funny how there are massive protests in France at the notion, but -- HoosWillWin 02/08/2023 12:34PM Solutions are pretty simple:… -- Los Angeles Hoo 02/08/2023 12:31PM LOL. Of all your bad takes, that may be the dumbest. ** -- VAGentleman05 02/08/2023 10:13PM How would the free market handle premiums for a 65 year old just diagnosed -- BocaHoo91 02/08/2023 3:37PM The "Free Market" with the insurance companies involved is broken -- GoochlandHoo 02/08/2023 1:24PM The health insurance industry is anything but free market, especially… -- Los Angeles Hoo 02/08/2023 1:28PM That’s a dumb take. A significant portion of the population will always be -- TomGlansAski 02/08/2023 1:14PM Bring back penury and poorhouses ** -- Hoo TV 02/08/2023 1:23PM Many can't go there, and many would rather die. ;) ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/08/2023 1:36PM If you subsidize bad decision-making, you get more of it… -- Los Angeles Hoo 02/08/2023 1:22PM I have no illusion that you care about others. But you might when they -- TomGlansAski 02/08/2023 1:58PM If I did care about others, the last thing I’d do is… -- Los Angeles Hoo 02/08/2023 2:13PM But you don’t, so it’s a hypothetical ** -- TomGlansAski 02/08/2023 2:28PM It’s also irrelevant. ** -- Los Angeles Hoo 02/08/2023 2:30PM No, not really ** -- TomGlansAski 02/08/2023 3:15PM Lemme guess. You read Ayn Rand at 14 and haven't changed since. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/08/2023 1:31PM I love snark as much as the next guy, but that… -- Los Angeles Hoo 02/08/2023 1:35PM What you conveniently forget is that SS is funded by a separate tax that -- TomGlansAski 02/08/2023 2:02PM The money is all fungible, and… -- Los Angeles Hoo 02/08/2023 2:26PM Whooosh ** -- TomGlansAski 02/08/2023 2:27PM There's no need to answer anything posited on false premises. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/08/2023 1:37PM Like I said. ** -- Los Angeles Hoo 02/08/2023 1:39PM Exactly. The GOP has floated the "free market" BS since the 1930's. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/08/2023 1:18PM Yeah, the free market does such a great job with healthcare ** -- 111Balz 02/08/2023 1:00PM There is also a massive funding difference between the two. SS is funded at -- Hoodafan 02/08/2023 12:27PM I'd be against raise the age here. For raising SS age, but not the -- GoochlandHoo 02/08/2023 1:23PM Good post ** -- 111Balz 02/08/2023 1:10PM To the extent people support SS, it’s because they… -- Los Angeles Hoo 02/08/2023 1:09PM I don’t see many (close to any) proposals that alter… -- Stimp 02/08/2023 1:24PM I understand that, but that cuts into support for the system…. -- Los Angeles Hoo 02/08/2023 1:30PM Personally I would privatize at least part of it, just for younger folks so -- Hoodafan 02/08/2023 1:15PM Wrong ** -- 111Balz 02/08/2023 1:12PM Disagree about raising age. Need to lift the taxable cap. That is the easy -- HooAskedYou 02/08/2023 12:17PM I wouldn't be opposed to this either. But I do believe the age for FULL -- GoochlandHoo 02/08/2023 1:19PM SS already does that. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/08/2023 1:39PM I know...what I'm saying is you now get Full at 71...not 67..or something -- GoochlandHoo 02/08/2023 5:47PM Also should limit it for people who continue to work...... -- Zhoo 02/08/2023 1:11PM That’s the way it already works for those under full retirement age ** -- Stimp 02/08/2023 1:20PM I was talking post retirement...... ** -- Zhoo 02/08/2023 1:22PM This. Raise the max cap. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/08/2023 12:55PM Agreed. Won't solve it all, but will help. ** -- HoosWillWin 02/08/2023 12:31PM
