🚨 Elon and Trump and the Republicans are coming for Social Security to offset tax cuts for the rich Lift the cap. No to cuts. - ThreadSky

thetnholler.bsky.social • 93 days ago

🚨 Elon and Trump and the Republicans are coming for Social Security to offset tax cuts for the rich

Lift the cap. No to cuts.

Comments

inmywoodshop.bsky.social•93 days ago

Reminder 👇

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theylovehunni.bsky.social•93 days ago

Why the fuck is Elon even in the conversation?

jdself.bsky.social•93 days ago

Because he sees a buck to me made at average persons expense. He gives zero fucks

jkruofa.bsky.social•93 days ago

Excellent question!

theylovehunni.bsky.social•93 days ago

I can’t believe to this day that more than half of this country signed up for this

lavalips.bsky.social•93 days ago

BECAUSE KLINGON TRANSLATES INFORMATION TO DUMB DUMB TRASH IN A WAY HIS BURNT OUT 10 YEAR OLD BRAIN CAN UNDERSTAND.

bluestreetbrand.bsky.social•93 days ago

Tax The Rich is now the central message moving forward.
And because of Elon and the Oligarchs taking over….Cap The Rich as well. Earnings over one billion must go to pay for all services like Social Security.

biostats69.bsky.social•93 days ago

From 2016 we still haven't done anything close to what is needed

https://www.cbpp.org/research/increasing-payroll-taxes-would-strengthen-social-security#:~:text=Eliminating%20the%20cap%20would%20make,on%20every%20dollar%20of%20earnings.

mssmartypanda.bsky.social•93 days ago

If the opposition actually cared they’d be yelling from the rooftops about this.

xgambitt69x.bsky.social•92 days ago

They did. Ppl didn’t like the price of eggs and didn’t vote for the woman.

borninthenorth.bsky.social•93 days ago

OK, so if they’re gonna cut the Social Security, does that mean we’re getting that back or are they going to find another program that they think that money should go into??
Like you know, I don’t know maybe their pockets cause I know it’s not going to my pockets .

valario.bsky.social•93 days ago

No, they have intention to refund your SS. Trump said he would leave SS alone , just one more lie.

borninthenorth.bsky.social•93 days ago

Oh really. Refund . Cool wondering how’d that work🤔
Rebranding is what’s happening maybe .

byoder.bsky.social•93 days ago

Ssssssssssshhhhhoooocckkkkkiiinnnggg. Wait. No. Never mind. I want to fight elon

fyzzlefry.bsky.social•92 days ago

Eat the rich

bettertolisten.bsky.social•93 days ago

Here's another short, sweet talking point for you, Dems in Congress. Start using it. EVERY. CHANCE. YOU. GET.

malone51.bsky.social•93 days ago

F off Not happening

scapegoat66.bsky.social•93 days ago

Keep up the good work brother I know it's hard watching the Russian moles trying to bring us to their level

lisagec.bsky.social•93 days ago

Oh, hell no!!

presidentepstein.bsky.social•93 days ago

President Epstein believes additional bicyclists will have concepts for making America great again.

murderbot3.bsky.social•92 days ago

This MUST get traction!!!

#SCRAPTHECAP

us-soldiers-dad.bsky.social•93 days ago

Thank you.

biff88.bsky.social•93 days ago

scrabbyone.bsky.social•93 days ago

Let's impoverish millions of seniors so billionaires don't have to pay their share.

morpheus-huxley.bsky.social•93 days ago

Why do people want to give the richest man the money they need to survive?

vjm4democracy.bsky.social•93 days ago

I wish I could say “unbelievable” with a straight face.

It’s gonna be rough. For a decade at least.

skygirl66.bsky.social•92 days ago

WE PAID FOR SOCIAL SECURITY IT'S OUR MONEY AND I'M STILL PAYING INTO SOCIAL SECURITY.... Hands off!

cyclingaikidoka.bsky.social•93 days ago

Here it is from the Republican Icon himself.⬇️

chefcraig-77.bsky.social•93 days ago

He was good up until the Ketchup is a Vegetable moment.

blue-co-tim.bsky.social•93 days ago

the WS / investment bankers / crypto crowd WANT to monetize the federal reserves & every asset that We the People own.

perc dot org has been plotting this for decades

there's plenty of others .. and they've been given the keys to the nation

judyblue007.bsky.social•92 days ago

Well, shucks THEY don't need social security to survive...so a little hardship isn't too much for the millionaire and billionaire class to ask. I do hate them.

Why isn't the grievance party grievancing about this?

ehs06702.bsky.social•93 days ago

Huh, it's almost like we told these people this would happen. Oh well.

badmystic.bsky.social•93 days ago

Fuck that bullshit...

jeffsharon.bsky.social•93 days ago

ELIMINATE the cap.

feraltempleguard.bsky.social•93 days ago

Eliminate capitalism.

lovers51.bsky.social•93 days ago

That's a misleading and inflammatory claim. Social Security is not in danger of being cut. The cap on earnings was never meant to be a permanent feature, and lifting it would be a responsible step towards ensuring the program's long-term sustainability.

bettertolisten.bsky.social•93 days ago

So... Social Security is NOT in danger of being cut by Republicans? Their plan is to REMOVE THE CAP and have the rich pay their fair share of social security taxes like the rest of us? That doesn't sound like a single Republican I've ever met. 😆😆😆

fallout71.bsky.social•93 days ago

Shut up bot

kushthrublm.bsky.social•93 days ago

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viv42.bsky.social•92 days ago

😮

notproperty.bsky.social•93 days ago

MUSK IS NOT AMERICAN

ehs06702.bsky.social•93 days ago

No, but people voted for him as a shadow president and now we have to deal with it.

wbrushing.bsky.social•93 days ago

It’s not that he’s not American- I like (most) immigrants. It’s that he’s an entitled SOB whose family got wealthy in Apartheid-era South Africa. He’s the 1980s equivalent of the Nazis running to South America in ‘45

notproperty.bsky.social•93 days ago

Yes and also…

dreemer24.bsky.social•93 days ago

Right, the same people who hate immigrants are cheering him, just because....

notproperty.bsky.social•93 days ago

They only want the White Russians

1954atomic.bsky.social•92 days ago

They don’t have the votes.

globalyokel.bsky.social•92 days ago

I don't see how cutting Social Security facilitates tax cuts for the 1%. SS is a stand-alone program, not part of the federal budget.

radtlo.bsky.social•93 days ago

Time for the rich to pay their fair share - starting with this group!!

chefcraig-77.bsky.social•93 days ago

Eat the Rich !

godhatesyeast.bsky.social•93 days ago

the muskrat pays this in sixty seconds

jas-gar.bsky.social•93 days ago

STEP YOUR GRUBBY PAWS OFF MY MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY, you entitled anti-American middle class and poor nimrods!!!!!

fantagor.bsky.social•93 days ago

SocSec doesn't add to the debt, except for the TRILLIONS borrowed from the fund to offset tax cuts for the rich and Bush43's war of choice in Iraq. That's their ideal way to eliminate part of debt, by mooching on repaying SocSec.

melissapgh13.bsky.social•92 days ago

of course they are!

jscnyc.bsky.social•93 days ago

How about billionaires paying taxes?

tomchilds.bsky.social•93 days ago

I seem to remember a lot of “not going to happen, he said so” on X right before the election.

Wonder what they are saying now.

timeforsanity.bsky.social•86 days ago

MAGAS were warned time and time again that Trump and the Republicans were coming for your social security and Medicare benefits! It is still hard to accept that so many Americans voted against their own self interest! Trump doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the plight of the average American!

northernmichdave.bsky.social•93 days ago

I’ve got news for them….

seanmorrisuofan.bsky.social•93 days ago

"Plans to cut, retirement plans people have been paying into their whole life"

Say it with your chest.

oscarwao.com•93 days ago

Hey, at least those eggs should be cheaper, amiright? A**holes

p-za.bsky.social•93 days ago

Eggs will be cheaper If SS, Medicare and VA benefits are cut many people won't have money to buy eggs That supply and demand thing. Do these fools not know that without consumers whatever they sell won't sell What's the plan for when people can't afford housing, utilities, clothes, cars whatever?

oscarwao.com•93 days ago

Of course they don’t!

canukukra.bsky.social•92 days ago

But the money does not belong to the government. This is what I don't get. It's a special tax program with one goal, even a separate line. It is not general tax revenues and touching it must be illegal.

jkruofa.bsky.social•93 days ago

Fine, but give back the money everyone paid into it. Each person should get a lump sum of tax-free cash equal to the amount they have paid in up to the day cuts are made.

dankfink1.bsky.social•93 days ago

Plus the assumed 4% interest for all the money and all the time invested

resistsaj.bsky.social•92 days ago

With interest.

swampviking.bsky.social•93 days ago

100%

westcoast-tj.bsky.social•93 days ago

Mother... fu....

wbrushing.bsky.social•93 days ago

If they do, then we’ll get another data point about the severity of the MAGA cult. If the lemmings go along with losing their biggest source of income, then someone should mix up a big batch off Kool Aid and put them out of their misery.

zemuron.bsky.social•93 days ago

Let’s cut senate/ house pay .. tax’s churches as they truly should be paying

bettertolisten.bsky.social•93 days ago

Even more effective, raise taxes on corporations and the ultra wealthy. That's where all our money went over the last 50 years.

djohnrowins.bsky.social•92 days ago

I was in line at grocery store and woman complained about 'illegals taking our Social Security.' Had to give her a lesson and explain the cap to her and why it needed to be raised. That was a decade ago and we are still here discussing cuts instead

noname4u.bsky.social•92 days ago

The hubris to think that they can just take money that belongs to us.

unownedlib2.bsky.social•92 days ago

Has always baffled me that it’s the people who need Social Security the most, who rely on it the most, who are politically and emotionally committed to a man and a party whose wealth makes Social Security irrelevant. These folks have no clue the danger they’ve put themselves in.

lavalips.bsky.social•93 days ago

THOSE POOR HILLBILLIES IN NORTH CAROLINA. GONNA STAY POOR.

midwestdonna.bsky.social•93 days ago

They might raise the retirement age down the road (I'm reading for those younger than 60 right now), or make it more needs based or hit SSDI. I despise them but I didn't think they're stupid enough to cut traditional social security benefits to the middle class that people have paid into for years.

feraltempleguard.bsky.social•93 days ago

Have you seen these people? I can assure you they are more than stupid enough to cut SS.

arcaneengineer.bsky.social•92 days ago

It isn’t the benefits they want, it’s the ability to write off $2.7T in bonds Social Security is required to hold any surpluses in and the fact that they are very close to having to start liquidating those holdings.

tooncesdacat.bsky.social•92 days ago

I didn't think Thune would fold to Elon.

darwinwoodka.bsky.social•93 days ago

We could just cut John Thune's salary instead

vivalavoices.bsky.social•92 days ago

Why don't rich freeloaders just pay fair taxes and be entitled to tax cuts? Because, then, they wouldn't be obscenely rich off us, sitting ducks. Quack, quack. 🦆 I EXPECT REIMBURSEMENT FOR ALL MY SS TAX MONEY PAID DURING MY WORKING ... 1

vivalavoices.bsky.social•92 days ago

LIFE. How about you? We, all, paid this tax and are entitled to a refund of monies, so what do they think they are taking away? It is not a FREE program; it IS EARNED by every worker in America. Thievery is unlawful, RepubliCons in America. ... 2

espritdecorp.bsky.social•93 days ago

DOGE created to deflect DT lied to American to get elected so he could give tax cuts to 1%. The usual Rs bait & switch. DT or Rs use DOGE to find problems as a cover on how to pay for the huge tax cuts for the 1% &to pay for it they will end social svcs.
Solution: Cut Musk's multi $M subsidies.

theoutpost.bsky.social•93 days ago

Social Security? Over my dead body..., but that's the plan I suppose.

grassrootsmom.bsky.social•92 days ago

How rich is rich enough? Why do the rich need tax breaks? They could celebrate their luck and abundance by contributing to the common good thru taxes.
“The only wealth you keep forever is the wealth you have given away”
-Marcus Aurelius

patfrank60.bsky.social•93 days ago

In 2024, the maximum amount you can pay into Social Security in a year is $10,453.20, and the maximum amount you can receive in a year is $58,476. The reason is the upper cap of only taxing up to earnings of $168,600.

madmike2024.bsky.social•91 days ago

Unless your self employed then double the pay into number

patfrank60.bsky.social•93 days ago

25K millionaires didn't file taxes from 2017 to 2024 who made at least a million dollars, which means they didn't pay what they owe. If you've evaded taxes and not reported income, you won't receive Social Security benefits

jud4democracy.bsky.social•92 days ago

I don’t think millionaires care if they get Soc. security. They don’t care if anyone receives SS. They need to pay their fair share.

patfrank60.bsky.social•91 days ago

Some day their widows may want it.

jud4democracy.bsky.social•91 days ago

So true!

madz123.bsky.social•92 days ago

Let me leave this right here. It’s important.

thatdemmargie.bsky.social•93 days ago

Does anyone out there know how much Congress costs us? Senators and Representatives get salaries, they have staff and aides, they get expense allowances. Then there are the perks, gym, swimming pool, barbershop/beauticians, and more. Possible cuts there? Every dollar counts.

thatdemmargie.bsky.social•87 days ago

Wow I just saw a post that says Senators are paid $15,000 a month plus fully paid health insurance.

littlejimmy115.bsky.social•93 days ago

It’s time for a Georgian uprising

hanssolo4love.bsky.social•93 days ago

If they push this, it will be the death of the republican party.

bettertolisten.bsky.social•93 days ago

🤞

mzstrega.bsky.social•93 days ago

I’m concerned that they will control or eliminate voting, and then it won’t matter what people think. They’ll control the press and feed the people whatever they want to.

zonesofthought.bsky.social•91 days ago

This Fox “reality check” shows just how disconnected all this is arithmetically and in the minds of conservatives. They are going to try and pay for ongoing tax cuts by cutting entitlements. Also notice some people are trying to redefine the terms 🫤

https://youtu.be/IUpi4G4WHCk?si=8AZ-mC4sEUKmG4GQ