Thread by @dcpetterson

Republican proposals:

1) First statement is an outright lie. Social Security and Medicare contribute ZERO to the federal deficit. They're entirely paid for by FICA taxes, which can't be used for anything else.

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Furthermore, that means cutting benefits will NOT reduce the deficit, because FICA TAXES CAN'T BE USED FOR ANYTHING ELSE.

Got it? Good. Let's go on.

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2) Second paragraph: Social Security can pay 70%-80% of promised benefits FOREVER. They other 20%-30% can be made up by eliminating the income cap on FICA contributions. We DON'T have to reduce benefits as Republicans want to.

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3) Third paragraph: Raising Medicare eligibility to 75 also raises the Soc Sec retirement age to 75, because otherwise retirees won't be able to afford healthcare--specially since Republicans want to repeal the ACA.

Fuck. That.

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4) More on the third paragraph: Eliminating eligibility at age 90 is Republican Death Panels, intentionally punishing and killing Americans who were so self-centered as to NOT DIE. Republicans are anti-life.

Fuck. Them.

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5) Taxing VA Disability and employer-sponsored healthcare plans will do NOTHING to help Social Security or Medicare, because those programs get NO money from the federal budget. Only from FICA taxes.

Which means...

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... taxing VA Disability and employer-sponsored healthcare plans is intended for one reason only: to make these things more expensive for Americans, and thus to kill the plans, and to kill Americans.

Republicans want YOU to die. Period.

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6) The final paragraph: NO. These proposals are designed to make die you desperate, impoverished, ill, and helpless, and to force you to work until the day you die, naked and alone.

This is terrifying.

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