Bush administration urges Social Security cuts

[rurallib]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20957376/

I was looking for something else and low and behold, they are at it again! Remember that $300 you got in 2001? That may have been you one and only SSI payment:
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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said Monday the only way to permanently fix Social Security is through some combination of benefit cuts and tax increases.

That was one of the key findings in a new paper on Social Security released by the Treasury Department in an effort to achieve common ground on the politically explosive issue.

"Social Security can be made permanently solvent only by reducing the present value of scheduled benefits and/or increasing the present value of scheduled tax increases," the paper said. The Treasury paper said that while other changes to the giant benefit program might be desirable "only these changes can restore solvency permanently."

[CottonBear]

1. The rich should pay SS taxes on all of their income. Problem solved.

:grr: Bush* is determined to ruin SS before he leaves office.

The American people already rejected his plan to fix (i.e. destroy) Social Security.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. I have never seen the fairness of the $90,000.00 cap on SS taxes.

Why should people who make less money have to pay SS taxes on 100% of their income while those making more than $90K annually do not?

[CottonBear]

13. It's totally not fair. Taxing rich for SS would solve the problem.

SS would be solvent forever.

[shain from kane]

2. "We can't afford all the wars that we planned, and still pay you S/S benefits." n/t

[flaminbats]

6. even freepers don't support their wars!!

if Republicans really wanted to win, they wouldn't oppose the tax hikes necessary to fund them. Reagan Republicans weren't willing to pay the taxes to fund the Cold War, but at least Reagan wasn't willing to sacrifice Social Security benefits in the name of solvency.

who can take them seriously now? first they cut taxes, then they start an expensive war with no exit strategy, then they waste away our Social Security surplus, and now they claim Social Security benefits are just too costly! Alan Greenspan didn't buy it, does Bush?

[indepat]

3. Can there be a man or woman alive who did not see this coming after a multi-trillion dollar raid

of the fabled, mythical "lockbox." This solution has always been as good as "money in the bank" as answer to fabled 'puke tax cuts for the most affluent among us.

[rurallib]

4. Bet the MSM won't cover it.

Or if they do it will be on a very limited basis.

[Cha]

8. The msm(corporatemediawhores)

are our Giant Nemesis and we will never be free from buSHITS untill they are destroyed.

[whistle]

5. Bush can go fuck himself, NO SOCIAL SECURITY CUTS

...Social Security can be made permanently solvent by ending the Iraq/Afghanistan War and avoiding other war entanglements such as this bullshit with Iran :wtf:

[Cha]

7. Need I say.."FUCK you buSHIT!"

Decrease your own wealth asshole..cut your own billions down you made off the blood and treasure of the War On Iraq you lied the American People into.

[goclark]

9. They just took $1000 away from me this year

Bush must have been responsible for thst. :puke:

[Debi]

11. Gee, I wonder if they'll start making the cuts on disability payments (SSDI) and SSI

:eyes:

[Wilber_Stool]

12. And I'm supposed to be afraid of Ahmadinejad..........n/t