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Originally Posted by Pballer
The House tax bill has no provision for exempting Social Security benefits from income taxes. Instead they are providing a relatively meaningless increase in the standard deduction for taxpayers over 65 with phaseout for higher income taxpayers. I don't need to be Nostradamus to know that the promise was a sham.
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The marketing appeal is "waste, abuse, and fraud." In today's world, it's all about the marketing story. Depends upon whose view is judging the spend. But even if there was no cutting spend, the increased future spend is way beyond the historically "non inflationary" level of spend relative to GDP.
Call me a communist but I don’t need my SALT deduction quadrupled so we can accelerate the debt crisis.