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In reply to the discussion: Dick Durbin voted to cut Social Security by 22%. Remember what Obama said? [View all]Sirveri
(4,517 posts)Raise the tax cap while implementing the glass floor and providing the hardship exemption would solve the balance without needing the C-CPI-U and EEA extension while leaving extra funding left over for slight tweaks to the bend points (I like that they raised the 90% bar cap from 9k/yr to 15k/yr, combine that with 5% above 107k and we're golden).
My guess is that these were installed to pacify the GOP, which is currently impossible so shouldn't be bothered with. But we do have to recognize that our system doesn't work without cooperation unless we have majorities in both houses (assuming Reid had the balls to reform the filibuster).
That said, crafting a bill the everyone here at DU would like, won't pass Congress, because they're all for the most part a bunch of bought out corporatists dead set on demolishing our ability to earn a living and force us into neo-corporate slavery.