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Originally Posted by Guest
Everyone does pay taxes. Social security, Medicare, gasoline, and sales taxes. If they rent, indirectly they are paying property taxes.
Bush's biggest tax cuts went to the people in the 39.6% tax bracket.
Take a look the chart of the 2014 budget. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United..._-_FY_2011.png
The two biggest categories are social security, and Medicare. The Republicans largest group of supporters are older Americans. Socialism seems to be working fine for us. It takes gall to complain about everybody else. We are the biggest takers. Sure we paid into the program for 30-40 years, but that money wasn't put aside for us. It was paid to people that were collecting at the time. If they put the plug on social security, which they won't do, we would be out of luck. We are not entitled to social security.
Defense spending is greater than discretionary spending. Constitution mandates national defense, but not at the cost of everything else. |
You are remiss in adding one element of fact. We did have a Social Security surplus from the '80's. And you also didn't mention that THIS socialism was FORCED upon us. We didn't welcome it, the liberals welcomed it. If my money would have been even moderately invested with a slight earnings, it would be better. You act like since we subsidize our pensions with our own money Social Security, then we are embracing socialism. Not true. Social Security was not set up to pay for those that did not contribute. We have many folks getting social security that never paid into it. And that IS socialism.
And Defense spending is a much smaller percentage of the budget than entitlements; much smaller.
And Medicare is disgraceful. You pay all your working life for Medicare and what do you get in return? Hospitalization, and hardly anything else. No paid doctor visits, no medicine. If you want anything else, you have to pay another $105 per month for Medicare B. That's each, spouse is separate. I am one of the lucky ones where I have a total BC/BS policy. My medicare doesn't pay anything unless I am hospitalized. What good does medicare do to those that can't afford supplements? Even the poor folks get a better deal with Medicaid. And they don't have to pay for it.
The government messes up anything that they have a hand in.