Social Security
Would a coronavirus-driven tax cut be the best solution?
Sure, there’s a substantial level of panic in many quarters of our country right now. Whether it’s in the financial sector, as evidenced by the quick shift from a bull market to bear territory, or the employment sector, with potential…
Biden has come around to the Sanders position on Social Security
This opinion piece by Mark Weisbrot in MarketWatch states that Joe Biden has moved more toward the Bernie Sanders position on Social Security in this campaign. Sanders, standing virtually alone, has been trying to increase benefits since getting to Congress…
Is Social Security Being Cheated Out of Revenue?
The way Sean Williams sees it, the Social Security program was deprived of $190 billion in 2019 because almost $1.6 trillion in earned income avoided the payroll tax last year. As he explains, there is a payroll tax cap, meaning…
Fact checking the State of the Union
Looking to The New York Times for fact-checking of something written by Republicans should always make one skeptical. But the newspaper is out with a revised analysis showing most of the statements made by the president in his Tuesday February…
Yes, Social Security IS an entitlement program
The word “entitlement” gets a bad rap when it comes to Social Security. People think it’s a denigration of the program which provides benefits to 64 million Americans. Entitlement conjures up getting something one doesn’t deserve. Alessandra Malito explains in…
Who’s Really Paying for Your Social Security Benefits?
A simple question such as “where do my monthly benefit checks come from” is generally not well not understood by most Americans, as a typical reply might be this– “it’s my money; I paid in; I’m getting it back.” Wrong!…
What Every Candidate for Federal Office SHOULD Say About Social Security
Everyone’s Social Security benefits are going to be cut 20% or more in just over a decade , from the 95-year old widow eating tuna out of a can to the checks received by the likes of the Bezos, Trumps,…
Democrats spar and Trump weighs in on Social Security
It’s been the third rail of politics for a long time– “touch it and you die.” The “it” is Social Security and even Medicare. The Washington Post dives into the continuing back and forth between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden…
Which Joe Biden will fix what ails Social Security?
“When I argued that we should freeze federal spending, I meant Social Security as well.” So said Joe Biden– in 1995. He’s not getting much love in a Democrat primary, especially from Socialist Bernie Sanders, for taking that courageous view…
Which Democrat is most committed to protecting Social Security?
Paul Waldman’s op-ed in The Washington Post takes readers through the positions of the Democrat candidates on Social Security. They are more similar than different, in that nearly all favor tax and benefit increases of some nature. All also oppose…