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Old 03-18-2025, 06:09 PM
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DOW and NASDAQ slide again today. Good job, dillweed d'Rumph.
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Russia being Example #1.
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Economics Is Not Trump’s Strong Suit
https://www.aei.org/economics/econom...s-strong-suit/

To put it politely...
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What I'd like to know is, what's Howard Lutnick's 94-year-old mother-in-law doing suckin' on the the government teat in the first place?

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She's got tons of money. That's why she wouldn't care if the social security didn't show up.
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What I'd like to know is, what's Howard Lutnick's 94-year-old mother-in-law doing suckin' on the the government teat in the first place?

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She's got tons of money. That's why she wouldn't care if the social security didn't show up.
Hell, if I had a billionaire grandson I wouldn't worry about missing a SS check either.
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Hell, if I had a billionaire grandson I wouldn't worry about missing a SS check either.
I know, right?

My original point -- albeit possibly arrived at by a circuitous route -- was that rich people shouldn't be receiving social security. Means testing, anyone? Seems like a good way to trim expenses.
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I know, right?

My original point -- albeit possibly arrived a by a circuitous route -- was that rich people shouldn't be receiving social security. Means testing, anyone? Seems like a good way to trim expenses.
It would trim relatively little in expenses, while introducing a potentially-problematic complication into the claims process. The only change necessary is to increase the cap on earnings subject to social security tax. I would make it a floating cap, adjusted automatically every year so prospective revenues hopefully match prospective expenses. Should that fail, Treasury on the hook for the shortfall. As it is anyway....
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It would trim relatively little in expenses, while introducing a potentially-problematic complication into the claims process.
Got it -- actually cheaper to pay everyone, even those who don't need or deserve it.

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