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And while Biden engorges Wall Street with 120 bil a month

Journal by fustakrakich

... and hands Afghanistan over to the CIA, he is sabotaging Social Security...

The coronavirus pandemic will cause the main U.S. Social Security trust fund reserves to be depleted in 2033, a year sooner than an estimate made a year ago

They could undo the payroll tax cuts and cap, and cut the bailouts, but, you know, blaming the pandemic (and the "other" side) sells more tickets.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday September 01 2021, @05:25PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 01 2021, @05:25PM (#1173317) Journal
    "Can". The government can also use those taxes to create problems rather than fix problems. Social Security and Medicare are two such problems. They were meant to be zero revenue programs.

    Now, rather than partially fix these programs to at least return them to revenue neutral territory, I see proposals that we grab more tax revenue and throw it at these programs. This is called digging the hole deeper. That money could be used for a bunch of other purposes including not being taken as taxes in the first place.