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CousinIT

(9,262 posts) Wed Jan 1, 2020, 01:38 PM Jan 2020

Happy 2020. Sam Johnson proposes massive social security cuts. For everyone.

Link to tweet

Sam Johnson, chair of the Soc. Sec. subcommittee
introduced a bill to cut Soc Sec!

It would raise the retirement age to 69!
workers making $50K would see reductions up to 35%!

Every income bracket would get hit!
... millennials would see their benefits cut in half!

Can anyone else verify this?

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Happy 2020. Sam Johnson proposes massive social security cuts. For everyone. (Original Post) CousinIT Jan 2020 OP

I don't see a Sam Johnson currently in the Senate or House. AJT Jan 2020 #1

Uhh, I get one from Texas... Wounded Bear Jan 2020 #3

He retired in 2019. AJT Jan 2020 #4

Johnson is no longer a Congressperson. He did have a 2016 proposal that would cut SS, but it went Hoyt Jan 2020 #2

AJT

(5,240 posts)

1. I don't see a Sam Johnson currently in the Senate or House.

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Wed Jan 1, 2020, 01:45 PM

Jan 2020

Wounded Bear

(58,728 posts)

3. Uhh, I get one from Texas...

Reply to AJT (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 1, 2020, 01:51 PM

Jan 2020

https://www.congress.gov/member/sam-johnson/J000174?searchResultViewType=expanded

Repub from Texas. Luckily Dems still control the House. This won't go anywhere.

AJT

(5,240 posts)

4. He retired in 2019.

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 1, 2020, 05:54 PM

Jan 2020

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

2. Johnson is no longer a Congressperson. He did have a 2016 proposal that would cut SS, but it went

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Wed Jan 1, 2020, 01:48 PM

Jan 2020

nowhere.

Even the so-called "Catfood Commission" recommended increasing benefits for those at the lower end of the SS benefits scale, so I doubt the proposal called for cutting benefits for people who made $50K.

I like some of the stuff on 4Mvp's Twitter page (is that what it's called?), but not sure he's an expert on SS.

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