Do these people ever write any NEW material?? "This is the largest tax bill in history...

[TrollBuster9090]

This is the largest tax bill in history. And to call it "Social Security" is a fraud on the working man. I am not exaggerating the folly of this legislation. The saving it forces on our workers is a cruel hoax." --Alf Landon 1936 Republican Presidential Nominee.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Here are some other quotes from Republicans about 'the horrors' of Social Security in 1936. Please spread these around the internet, reminding people that Republican opposition to policies that help regular people has been going on since the days of FDR. (Indeed, they're STILL trying to float the meme that FDR 'caused' the Great Depression. Luckily for them, most of the people who actually lived through the roaring 20s, and saw what caused the Great Depression are no longer around to smack them upside the head for their stupidity.)

Courtesy of the CRY WOLF PROJECT: crywolfproject.org

Here we have the old favorites list:

It's unconstitooshinul!

Unfortunately, the measure is in some respects ill-considered. It’s constitutionality is by no means certain: if the Federal Government may compel the states to adopt unemployment insurance under the guise of a tax, why may it not similarly compel them to adopt any other sort of legislation

-Editorial, The New York Times.

This whole thing sounds kinda FRENCH to me! Do you wanna be a cheese-eating surrendermonkey!?

I fear it may end the progress of a great country and bring its people to the level of the average European. It will furnish delicious food and add great strength to the political demagogue. It will assist in driving worthy and courageous men from public life. It will discourage and defeat the American trait of thrift. It will go a long way toward destroying American initiative and courage.

-Senator Daniel O. Hastings (R-DE) speaks against Social Security in 1935.

REAL MEN don't NEED gubmint!

There is no such thing, biologically, socially or economically, as absolute security; but the greatest security comes from within the individual rather than from without and the Thames unduly to ensure, will so weaken the individual and cannot adapt circumstances and environment to himself, or himself to his surroundings.

- John C. Parker, President of the Brooklyn Edison Company.

This Roosevelt guy is a Kenyan Usurper!

The lash of the dictator will be felt and 25 million free Americans will for the first time submit themselves to a finger print test.

- Representative Daniel Reed (R-NY

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This bill will KILL JOBS (kill the recovery!)

Never in the history of the world has any measure been brought in here so insidiously designed so as to prevent business recovery, to enslave workers, and to prevent any possibility of the employers providing work for the people.

-Representative John Taber (R-NY)

Business and industry are already operating under heavy burdens: and that old –age insurance would cause more unemployment.

- Allen Treadway (R-Mass), the ranking minority member of the Ways and Means committee.

We believe that this measure, if adopted, means at best an annuity of doubtful value for the aged of the future and unemployment benefit of doubtful value for the normally temporarily unemployed of the future--at the terrific cost of retarding the reemployment of those who are unemployed today.

- John Harrington, general counsel for the Illinois Manufacturing Association. Senate Finance Committee hearings



Do not forget this: such an excessive tax on payrolls is beyond question a tax on employment. In prosperous times it slows down the advance of wages and holds back re-employment. In bad times it increases unemployment, and unemployment breaks wage scales.

-Alf Landon, the 1936 Republican nominee for president.

Okay, fine, maybe it's not such a bad idea. But GUBMINT is too wasteful to be trusted with it!

There is every probability that the cash they pay in will be used for current deficits and new extravagances. We are going to have trouble enough to carry out an economy program without having the Treasury flush with money drawn from the workers…

-Alf Landon, the 1936 Republican nominee for president.

It will cause PRICES TO GO UP! Inflation! INFLATION! (And FDR is trying to steal your gold at the same time. Hrmm....

The actual fact will be, in almost every case, that the whole tax will be borne either by the employe [sic] or by the consumer through higher prices. That is the history of all such taxes. This is because the tax is imposed in such a way that, if the employer is to stay in business, he must shift the tax to some one else.

-Alf Landon, the 1936 Republican nominee for president.


The Social Security Bill will add 6 percent to the labor cost of doing business. No one with the slightest familiarity with economic principals can believe that the total cost of this will be born solely by employers; it must be shared by labor and consumers.

-Editorial, The New York Times.

[rurallib]

1. {insert name} is the most liberal {insert office} in history!

no, they don't have any new material, but it has worked well for them since 1980

[TrollBuster9090]

2. True, but it didn't work from 1933 to 1980, and I'm wondering what caused the change. The answer is

The answer is, it was in 1980 that Democrats stopped using economic populism as something to run on. Up until 1980, regardless of their racists, dixiecrat past, Democrats were always known as the party that fought for the common man. Ever since they stopped using economic populism we've found ourselves in the absurd situation where the party that has always defended the right of plutocrats and robber barons to exploit the common man has become the party of the common man.

[Johonny]

3. I heard social programs turn us into slaves of entitlement programs

and the concept of class did not exist before them


...and then I heard it again and again and again. It was stupid the first time I heard it.