Cutting Medicare/SS: The GOP calls it a "hard decision"

[MissMillie]

Republicans' plans to slash Social Security and Medicare are becoming clearer: 'We have no choice but to make hard decisions'


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-plans-to-slash-social-security-and-medicare-are-becoming-clearer-we-have-no-choice-but-to-make-hard-decisions/ar-AA16ILik?pc=U483&cvid=22eb3e5d08cf444f9c8caffc85717ad3

After being evasive about their plans for entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare in the months leading up to midterms, the House GOP has begun to confirm its intention to cut spending on both.

That's according to The Washington Post's Tony Romm, who reported that Republican lawmakers are willing to use the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip in order to get the Biden administration to cave on spending cuts to Medicare and Social Security. Failing to raise the debt ceiling by the summer could cause the US to default on its debt for the first time in history, the consequences of which would be dire.

"We have no choice but to make hard decisions," Rep. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, leader of the conservative Republican Study Committee, told The Post. "Everybody has to look at everything."

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Hard on whom, Mr. Hern?

I don't imagine that they might consider making things EASIER for the seniors who have worked their entire lives for their Medicare and Social Security and think about maybe increasing taxes on those who can afford to pay....

Let's not forget that Medicare and Social Security cuts won't really make much of a difference when it comes to deficits.

Oh, and then there's always the budget for the Pentagon. I can't remember the last time the Pentagon didn't get MORE than what it requested.


From where I'm sitting it isn't "hard" for them to make this decision at all. They're probably figuring that the seniors will be dead soon enough anyway.... Much more important to keep those rich donors happy, and make sure that there's defense contracts for the war machine.

[Walleye]

1. It's not a decision at all, it's all hot air, they know it will never become law

[sanatanadharma]

2. A hard decision would be cutting the military by their audited missing moneys

Can't track the spending nor provide receipts means the military really doesn't need the excess money.

Perhaps take the other track and cut corporate largess. Artificial people need to be held to the same standards as real people.
Can't afford to subsidize peoples health, shelter and future? The same needs apply to subsidizing fake-people.

[Scrivener7]

9. Or raising the highest tax bracket by 2 percent.

[walkingman]

3. Do Not Negotiate With Terrorists - it is all BS and anyone that follows

politics in America knows it. We obviously have a lot of brain-dead Americans these days. Sorry but it is the truth.

[Model35mech]

4. They forgot the -ass. It IS a hard-ASS decision

and it's entirely unnecessary to approach it this way.

COME ON DEM THINK TANKS!!!!

Set that love of WALL STREET donations aside, EXPLAIN WHY THIS IS UNNECESSARY AND DAMAGING TO THE US AND THE WORLD.

[Victor_c3]

5. It wouldn't be that painful of a decision to just undo the tax cut trump gave the wealthy

When you’re billionaire, what difference does a few million or a few hundred million make?

You’re still rich as all hell even if you have to pay a reasonable amount in taxes to support the very society that allowed you to be filthy rich in the first place.

The people that benefit the most from society owe the most to society.

[Chakaconcarne]

6. A hard decision, but it's been forced upon us by the democrats.....

You know it's coming....

Never mind the Trump tax cuts that were supposed to, but never paid for themselves...

[Ferryboat]

7. Only hard decisions to make are.....

Raising the limit on income subjected to SS tax. Or maybe taxing the wealthy and corporations? It's not hard, you just need to bite the hand that feeds you instead of shafting those who have already put in a lifetime of work.

[cilla4progress]

8. Isn't this the stupidest thing ever politically

Considering oldsters are the biggest voting bloc? And typically their supporters?