Not indexing benefits or taxes is the favorite poison pill of conservatives in both parties. Yes, it's unfair, insane and cruel to too many people. Conservatives will do anything to suppress wages on the off chance they will also decrease inflation.

Never mind it's never worked, no conservative is ever capable of noticing when his dogma is wrong.

some folks thought I was a greedy sob. I worked a union job and we have a
a pension and I saved for retirement. But there were some here that thought if you got any income other than SS it should be deduced from your SS dollar for dollar. Why even have a pension or try to save for retirement?

for them for decades. I always give them the "insurance is not a giveaway and not an investment" speech.

Then I tell them that since they had enough money to pay for repairs in their savings account, their car insurance payout will not be forthcoming.

Since they made enough to pay off a $200,000 hospital bill for that heart attack, stenting, and complications, their health insurance would not cover it.

Since their children will be eligible for survivor benefits from SS, that life insurance payment has been canceled, they don't need it.

Means testing for any defined benefit insurance plan is simply insane.

Yes, the wealthy who worked all their lives for paychecks will collect SS. So what?

My dad used to call it his welfare check (yes, he was a winger) but that welfare check made the difference between being retired and never enjoying it and managing to do a little traveling while he and my mother were young enough to enjoy it.

Means testers want to tear everybody down to below subsistence living. Join me in blasting them, they deserve it.

It sucks getting punished for trying to do the right thing.

Another example of what that asswipe did to set the country on the path to ruin.

You can thank Ronnie for that. I'm with the OP on this issue. I have a very, very small pension and my Social Security isn't that much either and I still have to pay taxes on it! What a joke! Then our stupid Michigan governor, Dickhead Snyder decided to tax pensions too.

When I was a young woman in my 20's I had a lot of empathy for seniors and so did most of my age group back then, but now that I'm a senior it seems no one fights for these things any longer. Social Security should NOT be taxable income unless it is for people who make over $200K a year.

of our SS income taxable but Bill Clinton raised it to 85%. If the threshold for
taxation would have been adjusted for inflation it would be around $60000 for a single,
that wouldn't be so bad but it has never been increased in 30 years. They manage to raise that goal for the alternative minimum tax though. Well SS is not taxable in Ohio, yet.

started the tax rule that if you made over $50K per year your IRA contribution was no longer deductible right off the top of your federal taxes.

85% of SS taxable. Maybe this could be an issue for Democrats to run on and get the
old white peoples vote.

They passed the law and Ronnie signed it.

if you just had a halfway decent union job you fall into that category. I remember
back in the Clinton days Rush Limbaugh made a big issue out of him raising it to 85%.