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In reply to the discussion: Jeff Tiedrich tweet about debt ceiling and threatened Social Security cuts: [View all]Caliman73
(11,726 posts)Ronald Reagan massively cut the tax rates on top income brackets AND the corporate tax rate, THEN for the first time in the history of the program started taxing Social Security benefits as income. Conservatives have always shifted the burden of paying for society from the wealthiest people, most able to pay, to the rest of us. Then they scream about how we need austerity, to cut spending on frivolous things like infrastructure, healthcare, food and water safety, etc... They NEVER say, "You know, the military is a full 10 percent of the federal budget and over 50% of discretionary spending, maybe we ought to look at that"
Conservatives do not give on solitary shit about anyone but the wealthy, and their own ambitions to become the wealthy.