i swear to god, this tax bill should just be renamed, Kill the baby boomers

[AmandaRuth]

i really do think the boomer generation is now seen as a drag on the economy, and the sooner we are out, the better for the billionaires.

I've been working full time since i was 14, (I lied about my age, and a couple weeks in, the boss found out, employment laws were laxer in those days, and not really enforced), and now that i am (was) close to retirement, I feel like the society I worked to uphold my whole life was just an illusion.

I am reading that the bill may pass. I want to puke, and need to take some self care action, precautions so i don't all into a paralyzing debilitating depression. Greatest generation, my skinny ass. I want my hope back, I'm fucking tired

[Irish_Dem]

1. We are useless eaters in their eyes.

I too have worked since I was a young teen. And then worked in a demanding and difficult field for 40 years.
Now that I am retired the government is finished with me I guess.
Used me up and now will toss me away.

[Efilroft Sul]

2. Kill the 99% Bill

Occupy Wall Street was ahead of its time and dead-on accurate.

[Raster]

4. That is why so much effort was put into discrediting anything and...

...everything "Occupy." Even on this a supposed democratic "underground" message board.

[Efilroft Sul]

8. The Third Way types were ever the Republicans in our midst.

[Raster]

9. kinder, gentler republicans...

...

[Raster]

3. Same here... grew up on a farm...

...since I was a kid, I worked summers --all summer-- on the farm. Around 14, started working after-school jobs, in addition to summers on the farm. I have worked most of my life. I will be 61 in a few weeks, and I know I will need to work until I am 67. That is if there is Medicare and Social Security to cushion my "retirement years." I hope there will be. However, the billionaire class and their Congressional Republican minions ARE ACTIVELY WORKING to limit or eliminate Medicare and Social Security AND MORE. Congress no longer answers to the people, it's only the billionaire donors that matter to them.

[AmandaRuth]

5. and, i just took a look at what would happen

as a result of state and local taxes no longer being deductible.

christ on a stick, why don't they just solent green us?

[Brainstormy]

6. Actually it was our parents who were

the "greatest generation," according to Tom Brokaw. Those who were adults and fought in WWII. (I've always hated that expression because my father was an irresponsible ass, despite having served.). At any rate, I hear you. There's an ad out today from AARP "warning" boomers about the tax plan, like that's going to do any good. I want my hope back, too!

[mn9driver]

7. I paid my first social security tax from a paycheck I earned in 2nd grade

back in 1964. I’ve paid social security and medicare taxes ever since. I have 5 years before I can use Medicare, longer before I can draw full social security. Watching the Republicans hollow out and destroy these programs that I’ve paid into quite literally my whole life, is really pissing me off.