It's Time To Prepare For Trump's Assault On Social Security

[Tweedy]

15. Lowering the top rate from 55% to 33%

caused the budget deficit nightmare and President Reagan used Dixiecrats to rob social security payroll taxes to hide the truth. We still use payroll taxes, the tax Mr. Reagan added on young people and the tax Mr. Reagan added on social security recipients to pay for tax cuts on the wealthy while pretending the rest of us (those without our own gulfstreams) are the takers.

The numbers are obvious and they tell the truth.

The myth that a bipartisan deal saved social security in the 1980’s is gop false framing nearly everyone believes.

Now the gop is back to try and rob us again. The wealthy use way more government services than we ever will (see gulfstreams) and we get the dubious honor of paying for most of it while our roads deteriorate into dust.