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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 03:42 PM Mar 2020

Trump's proposed payroll tax cut is an attempt to kill Social Security.

Nothing else.

The GOP opposed the Social Security Act of 1935, and they have been doing their best to weaken Social Security since that time. This should be the core of the Democratic response to any in the media or elsewhere when this proposal is mentioned.

The GOP opposes paid sick leave, and requirements that business provide paid leave. So this latest attack should bed identified as an attack, not treated as a legitimate response to the Coronavirus.

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Trump's proposed payroll tax cut is an attempt to kill Social Security. (Original Post) guillaumeb Mar 2020 OP
And the man wins a gold cigar! Miguelito Loveless Mar 2020 #1
The US media will never make that connection. guillaumeb Mar 2020 #2
The corporate media Miguelito Loveless Mar 2020 #3
Agreed. guillaumeb Mar 2020 #4
The media doesn't miss it DENVERPOPS Mar 2020 #7
He's insulting Congress for not working with him Dem2 Mar 2020 #5
We know! Newest Reality Mar 2020 #6

Miguelito Loveless

(4,465 posts)
3. The corporate media
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 03:49 PM
Mar 2020

enabled Trump and they want him in charge since he is great for ratings and great for subscriptions and ad dollars.

Uncle Walter died decades ago, and the ethical news media with him.

DENVERPOPS

(8,820 posts)
7. The media doesn't miss it
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 04:37 PM
Mar 2020

Over 80% of all U.S. Media is owned by Republicans. They don't miss it, they just ignore reality and fail to report the truth....
Instead they will portray it as trying to help the people, not an overt plan to begin to destroy Social Security......

And who says that the U.S. doesn't "censor" the news........we are now galloping towards a third world tyranny.......

Dem2

(8,168 posts)
5. He's insulting Congress for not working with him
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 03:53 PM
Mar 2020

Because I'm sure Pelosi told him to shove it where the sun don't shine.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
6. We know!
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 03:53 PM
Mar 2020

Got something beneficial? Is it for THE PEOPLE? Is it about the commons or democracy and what the Preamble to The Constitution assure us all of?

Well, the Orange Tasmanian Devil of Destruction will DESTROY IT! It is so simple and obvious. Get him within a few feet of any of that and his sensors set of the alert: DESTRUCTION IMMANENT! FIRE!

That's ALL we will get from this barbaric spawn of Vlad the Impaler meets Typhoid Mary. We can expect much more and, of course, attempts to capitalize on emergencies as well, and that makes me shudder with great concern as the hairs on my neck rise. It's dictatorship or bust for Big Bonzo Don.



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