I am excited to introduce the Protect Social Security and Medicare Act with @doggett.house.gov and Rep. Maxwell Frost.
We all pay into these programs and are counting on them for essential healthcare and a dignified retirement. This bill will protect them.
We all pay into these programs and are counting on them for essential healthcare and a dignified retirement. This bill will protect them.
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How about introducing a bill to rid our government of the Russian assets?
Excellent video of what to say!
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IF you can get Republican votes to pass it, highly questionable, how do you plan to enforce it?
Have you noticed that they aren't following the rules? ANY rules?
Thank you for putting up a fight.
Facts:
• FICA is a payroll tax, and essentially the "premium" we pay for insurance.
• We pay into it for over 40 years.
• We retire at age 65 and become eligible for benefits.
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• "Full" Social Security only starts now at 67.
• Average life expectancy is 77.4 years.
• Many never live to collect.
• From its inception, FICA collections have not only covered ALL benefits, but has been in SURPLUS.
• SS's accumulated SURPLUS is now $2.67 Trillion.
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• The SURPLUS (also called "the Trust Fund") is invested in government bonds and earning about $65 Billion annually.
• It's purpose is to take up the slack when FICA collections are less than needed to pay benefits.
• This will happen when an older generation is large.
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• It's starting to happen now. The "Boomer" generation is larger than Gen X (now in peak earning years), so the Trust Fund will supply the difference.
• THIS is what Republicans are CALLING "bankruptcy," the Trust Fund being drawn upon.
• BUT, that's why it was created!
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• Gen X is smaller than the Baby Boom but the Millennials are larger than them.
• By the time Gen X is fully retired, the Boomers will be gone, and the larger Millennial generation will be rebuilding the surplus!
SO, here's what's going on:
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Get on board with this.
@pocan.house.gov and Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost
@frost.house.gov
@doggett.house.gov
Flip the House!
Thwart their voter suppression efforts.
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Musk calls recipients "parasites". I worked as a nurse for 40 years and am now disabled. Social Security is my only source of income. I don't even own a car.
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