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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Sanders' Social Security 'adjustments' undercut Biden attack
Last edited Wed Jan 29, 2020, 11:21 AM - Edit history (1)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As a congressman in the 1990s, Bernie Sanders expressed an openness to making “adjustments” to the tax and benefit structure of Social Security. He also praised an overhaul of the social safety net program signed into law by President Ronald Reagan that reduced benefits and increased taxes on working families.
Sanders’ presidential campaign and allies have highlighted similar remarks by Joe Biden to attack the former vice president and make the explosive charge that Biden was an outspoken proponent of slashing the program.
With Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses less than a week away, Sanders’ remarks from decades ago are surfacing as a counterpunch to the criticism of Biden, as the two top candidates in the Democratic race escalate a feud over the nation’s most popular entitlement, an issue that has particular reach among older voters.
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Sanders’ allies have specifically highlighted Biden’s past use of the term “adjustments” — a word they say was deployed as a euphemism for cuts.
Yet Sanders himself used the word in an election-year opinion article about Social Security that ran in The Burlington Free Press in 1996.
“As our population ages,” Sanders wrote, “it is clear that we will have to make incremental adjustments in Social Security taxes and benefits — as Congress has done in the past.”
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That includes a major 1983 bill signed into law by Reagan that came as the program was on the brink of insolvency. It raised taxes on working families, froze benefit increases for six months and gradually raised the age at which retirees can receive full benefits from 65 to 67.
During a 1999 press conference, Sanders went further, praising the 1983 law as a good example of people coming together to enact a solution without draconian changes.
“We should remember that in 1982, Social Security was within a few months — a few months — of not being able to pay out all benefits owed to Americans,” Sanders said at the time. “And then people came together and said of course we want to save Social Security. They worked together, and they did.”
Sanders’ presidential campaign and allies have highlighted similar remarks by Joe Biden to attack the former vice president and make the explosive charge that Biden was an outspoken proponent of slashing the program.
With Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses less than a week away, Sanders’ remarks from decades ago are surfacing as a counterpunch to the criticism of Biden, as the two top candidates in the Democratic race escalate a feud over the nation’s most popular entitlement, an issue that has particular reach among older voters.
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Sanders’ allies have specifically highlighted Biden’s past use of the term “adjustments” — a word they say was deployed as a euphemism for cuts.
Yet Sanders himself used the word in an election-year opinion article about Social Security that ran in The Burlington Free Press in 1996.
“As our population ages,” Sanders wrote, “it is clear that we will have to make incremental adjustments in Social Security taxes and benefits — as Congress has done in the past.”
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That includes a major 1983 bill signed into law by Reagan that came as the program was on the brink of insolvency. It raised taxes on working families, froze benefit increases for six months and gradually raised the age at which retirees can receive full benefits from 65 to 67.
During a 1999 press conference, Sanders went further, praising the 1983 law as a good example of people coming together to enact a solution without draconian changes.
“We should remember that in 1982, Social Security was within a few months — a few months — of not being able to pay out all benefits owed to Americans,” Sanders said at the time. “And then people came together and said of course we want to save Social Security. They worked together, and they did.”
https://apnews.com/31c432f20acba807a569c7004abaf473
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I don't find it weak but compelling...
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+1000
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and it was not in Sander's favor...dear dear...
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When they show one's candidate is doing the opposite of 'surging."
Whatever gives you comfort...
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Hilarious.
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But thanks for kicking the thread!
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a pass in the GE.
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Since you may have avoided reading the OP after seeing the headline:
At the time, the primary legislative fixes to Social Security financing had increased taxes and cut benefits. That includes a major 1983 bill signed into law by Reagan that came as the program was on the brink of insolvency. It raised taxes on working families, froze benefit increases for six months and gradually raised the age at which retirees can receive full benefits from 65 to 67.
During a 1999 press conference, Sanders went further, praising the 1983 law as a good example of people coming together to enact a solution without draconian changes.
“We should remember that in 1982, Social Security was within a few months — a few months — of not being able to pay out all benefits owed to Americans,” Sanders said at the time. “And then people came together and said of course we want to save Social Security. They worked together, and they did.”
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Sanders said during his 1996 campaign that the Social Security system had been “adjusted before, and adjustments will have to be made again.” He declined to say at the time what “adjustments” he supported.
During a 1999 press conference, Sanders went further, praising the 1983 law as a good example of people coming together to enact a solution without draconian changes.
“We should remember that in 1982, Social Security was within a few months — a few months — of not being able to pay out all benefits owed to Americans,” Sanders said at the time. “And then people came together and said of course we want to save Social Security. They worked together, and they did.”
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Sanders said during his 1996 campaign that the Social Security system had been “adjusted before, and adjustments will have to be made again.” He declined to say at the time what “adjustments” he supported.
https://apnews.com/31c432f20acba807a569c7004abaf473
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Warren could take Iowa, and I hope she beats Sanders like a drum...yeah I want my guy to win...but she is my second choice and I don't want Sander's and his campaigns attacks on her to succeed in any way. I say this as a woman...not because I support a different candidate.
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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In case you were afraid to read the OP:
At the time, the primary legislative fixes to Social Security financing had increased taxes and cut benefits. That includes a major 1983 bill signed into law by Reagan that came as the program was on the brink of insolvency. It raised taxes on working families, froze benefit increases for six months and gradually raised the age at which retirees can receive full benefits from 65 to 67.
During a 1999 press conference, Sanders went further, praising the 1983 law as a good example of people coming together to enact a solution without draconian changes.
“We should remember that in 1982, Social Security was within a few months — a few months — of not being able to pay out all benefits owed to Americans,” Sanders said at the time. “And then people came together and said of course we want to save Social Security. They worked together, and they did.”
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Sanders said during his 1996 campaign that the Social Security system had been “adjusted before, and adjustments will have to be made again.” He declined to say at the time what “adjustments” he supported.
During a 1999 press conference, Sanders went further, praising the 1983 law as a good example of people coming together to enact a solution without draconian changes.
“We should remember that in 1982, Social Security was within a few months — a few months — of not being able to pay out all benefits owed to Americans,” Sanders said at the time. “And then people came together and said of course we want to save Social Security. They worked together, and they did.”
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Sanders said during his 1996 campaign that the Social Security system had been “adjusted before, and adjustments will have to be made again.” He declined to say at the time what “adjustments” he supported.
https://apnews.com/31c432f20acba807a569c7004abaf473
But pointing that out is "AN ATTACK BY THE HATERS!"
Talk about desperate times...
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If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
You keep whacking away at that straw man, and it's threadbare. Give up.
People can ignore his own words all they want, but his record is clear. He did the very thing he accused Biden of - in a misrepresentation.
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2020/jan/09/bernie-sanders/did-biden-laud-paul-ryan-proposal-cut-social-secur/
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As a congressman in the 1990s, Bernie Sanders expressed an openness to making “adjustments” to the tax and benefit structure of Social Security. He also praised an overhaul of the social safety net program signed into law by President Ronald Reagan that reduced benefits and increased taxes on working families.
Sanders’ presidential campaign and allies have highlighted similar remarks by Joe Biden to attack the former vice president and make the explosive charge that Biden was an outspoken proponent of slashing the program.
Sanders’ presidential campaign and allies have highlighted similar remarks by Joe Biden to attack the former vice president and make the explosive charge that Biden was an outspoken proponent of slashing the program.
https://apnews.com/31c432f20acba807a569c7004abaf473
You keep talking about "grainy videos" - yet another straw man...
You seem rather anxious.
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
