Imagine trying to plan your retirement when you’re in your 40s, with these guys in power.
Will this include cuts to Social Security and Medicare? It’s
The second prong of this is Florida Senator Rick Scott’s declaration that nearly all federal programs should sunset after five years. This means that every five years, they could face cuts. And Senator Ron Johnson: The Republican from Wisconsin would put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block every single year, as targets for politicians haggling over government spending.
Looming over this debate, meanwhile, is the same tactic that Republicans used in the past to try to get their way: Threatening to shut down the government if Democrats don’t cooperate, and hold our economy hostage. Like they did when they tried to strip funding from the Affordable Care Act. Republicans didn’t balk at extending tax breaks to the wealthiest among us as part of their 2017 tax reform legislation. Yet guys like Ron Johnson are now complaining that Social Security and Medicare automatically grant benefits to people who have been paying into the system for their entire working lives. “If you qualify for the entitlement, you just get it no matter what the cost,” he lamented.
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