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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,034 posts) Sat Oct 19, 2019, 01:39 PM Oct 2019

Mitch McConnell: Republicans are gunning for Social Security, Medicare and Obamacare next

All Washington seems to be buzzing this week over a single question: Is Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) deliberately trying to throw the election to the Democrats?

At the root of the debate are interviews the Senate majority leader gave to Bloomberg and Reuters on Tuesday and Wednesday.

McConnell identified “entitlements” — that’s Washington code for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — as “the real drivers of the debt” and called for them to be adjusted “to the demographics of the future.”

Translation: He wants to cut benefits.

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-mcconnell-social-security-20181019-story.html

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Mitch McConnell: Republicans are gunning for Social Security, Medicare and Obamacare next (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2019 OP

Yea mitch, that trillion dollar tax gift to the rich had nothing to do with it. spanone Oct 2019 #1

Billboards need to put put up in every repuke country saying moscow mitch and the repukes kimbutgar Oct 2019 #2

If they do that, there will be a lot of Americans gunning for them. shockey80 Oct 2019 #3

Could be Andy823 Oct 2019 #4

Hey MOSCOW Mitch... not_the_one Oct 2019 #5

While hundreds of bills sit on his desk that would actually benefit people. Still we're told... Garrett78 Oct 2019 #6

The democrats and pundits need to shout this from the rooftops. Scotch-Irish Oct 2019 #7

They've been "gunning" for those programs since forever... Wounded Bear Oct 2019 #8

If they think that threatening to cut SS benefits will only impact senior voters, CrispyQ Oct 2019 #9

Rethug strategy is quite simple: Martin Eden Oct 2019 #10

There are billions just waiting for the looters Turbineguy Oct 2019 #11

spanone

(135,844 posts)

1. Yea mitch, that trillion dollar tax gift to the rich had nothing to do with it.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2019, 01:44 PM

Oct 2019

Trump’s Tax Bill Has Cost Homeowners a Trillion Dollars

In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has been talking about plans for, as he put it, a “very substantial tax cut for middle income folks who work so hard.” But before Congress embarks on a new tax measure, people should consider one of the largely unexamined effects of the last tax bill, which Trump promised would help the middle class: Would you believe it has inflicted a trillion dollars of damage on homeowners—many of them middle class—throughout the country?

That massive number is the reduction in home values caused by the 2017 tax law that capped federal deductions for state and local real estate and income taxes at $10,000 a year and also eliminated some mortgage interest deductions. The impact varies widely across different areas. Counties with high home prices and high real estate taxes and where homeowners have big mortgages are suffering the biggest hit, as you’d expect, given the larger value of the lost tax deductions. But as we’ll see, homeowners all over the country are feeling the effects.

I’m basing my analysis on numbers from two well-respected people: Mark Zandi, the chief economist of Moody’s Analytics; and Hugh Lamle, the retired president of M.D. Sass, a Wall Street investment management company.

Zandi’s numbers are broad—macro-math, as it were. Lamle (pronounced LAM-lee) is a master of micro-math. It was Lamle who first got me thinking about home value losses by sending me an economic model that he created to show the damage inflicted on high-end, high-bracket taxpayers in high-tax areas who paid seven digits or more for their homes.

https://fortune.com/2019/10/10/how-trump-tax-bill-affects-homeowners-middle-class/

kimbutgar

(21,162 posts)

2. Billboards need to put put up in every repuke country saying moscow mitch and the repukes

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2019, 01:49 PM

Oct 2019

Want to get rid of social security, Medicare and Obamacare. Vote repuke lose these programs.

shockey80

(4,379 posts)

3. If they do that, there will be a lot of Americans gunning for them.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2019, 01:52 PM

Oct 2019

Fuck Trump, Fuck Republicans, Fuck them all.

Andy823

(11,495 posts)

4. Could be

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2019, 02:11 PM

Oct 2019

They know just how bad things are here in the U.S.A. and around the world. If they want to git rid of him and then let Democrats clean up his mess, it could be their plan.

It took George W. two terms to screw things up. Dip shit trump has made things "worse" in less than one term and republicans have no idea how fix it, except to hope Democrats win in 2020 so they can blame trumps mess on the Democrats.

not_the_one

(2,227 posts)

5. Hey MOSCOW Mitch...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2019, 02:12 PM

Oct 2019

How many boomers are NOT retiring because they can't live off of their social security?

Maybe social security should be increased (maybe the equivalence of Yangs UBI), so they COULD retire!

How many millions of jobs would open up for those still working their way up the employment ladder?

Meanwhile, you didn't blink an eye at the 1 TRILLION $ tax cut for the uber wealthy.

You Fucking Piece Of Shit Pusbag On Pootie's Ass

Can we say TREASON???? I thought we could.

Garrett78

(10,721 posts)

6. While hundreds of bills sit on his desk that would actually benefit people. Still we're told...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2019, 02:15 PM

Oct 2019

...that "economic anxiety" drives people to vote Republican.

It's the racism, stupid.

Scotch-Irish

(464 posts)

7. The democrats and pundits need to shout this from the rooftops.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2019, 02:21 PM

Oct 2019

AND they need to keep beating the drum that says the republicans are supporting the president's lawlessness. We need to be calling out republicans, the same way they are always blaming every pimple on their asses on democrats.

Wounded Bear

(58,670 posts)

8. They've been "gunning" for those programs since forever...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2019, 02:41 PM

Oct 2019

Not really anything new here. When you hear Repubs say "strengthening" or "adjusting" these programs look for benefit cuts and contribution increases for the lower income folks.

CrispyQ

(36,478 posts)

9. If they think that threatening to cut SS benefits will only impact senior voters,

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2019, 03:02 PM

Oct 2019

I know people in their early 40s who are already counting on social security as part/all of their retirement. Our government has been hijacked by the dregs of humanity.

Martin Eden

(12,870 posts)

10. Rethug strategy is quite simple:

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2019, 03:25 PM

Oct 2019

1. Give massive tax cuts to their wealthy patrons, creating massive deficits.
2. Blame the deficits on "entitlements."
3. Cut the earned benefits we worked and paid for all our lives.

Turbineguy

(37,343 posts)

11. There are billions just waiting for the looters

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Oct 19, 2019, 03:38 PM

Oct 2019

Ayn Rand didn't warn us about.

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