Social Security
Position: To ensure that we meet our social responsibility towards our elderly so that they may live in security and dignity: - Forbid Congress from stealing from or privatizing the Social Security Trust Fund.
- Expand the Social Security System into a full national pension system which would eliminate the need for private, government, or union pensions.
- Remove the tax cap on income.
- Simplify and accelerate access to disability benefits.
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Issue 140) Social Security
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From:
oleboy
on February 27, 2009 at 09:19 PM
ALERT: Wake up America
Iım getting worried that Barack Obama wants to cut back on Social Security.
Republicans are trying to lure him into cutting Social Security by saying he could enjoy the bipartisanship that he so craves if he did that.
And his own OMB direc
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Charles Huddleston
on April 13, 2004 at 10:06 PM
Social Security needs to be enlarged into a full national pension system which would eliminate the need for private, government, or union pensions. That, combined with a national medical system would give the American worker the freedom to move when she needs to, change jobs without lose of benifits
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Dwight
on March 5, 2006 at 09:07 PM
Fund Social Security as the successful high priority program it is. One good scheme is the one mentioned; put social security taxes on all income, not just the first part of yearly income.
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Dave
on March 4, 2006 at 12:04 AM
As long as 54% of your tax dollars take care of the cost of present, future and past wars, the federal government will be in no position to voluntarily take over private and corporate retirement programs. Involuntary federal take-over or financing of the defined benefit retirement programs of bankru
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From:
Chris Campbell
on February 25, 2005 at 03:31 PM
If you have a choice to opt for private investment,why not put that money into a national health account?
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John Talbot
on January 15, 2005 at 02:22 AM
Make high asset holders not eligible for benefits, especially married with 2 SS checks coming in, double-dipping.
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From:
Justin
on July 22, 2004 at 03:54 PM
wouldn't a national pension system be a subsidy to giant corporations just like food stamps are described under another topic? if that is enacted but no living wage, employers will be skimming off the top and the bottom
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