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mopinko

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Sat Jul 9, 2016, 10:15 AM

Jul 2016

i've been saying this for a long time. voluntary buy in. let people choose to make the max contribution. make employers match it, too.
and care giver credit is a must. it's just the right thing to do.

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Democrats back $15 minimum wage, but stalemate on Social Security [View all] DonViejo Jul 2016 OP

"the current minimum wage is a starvation wage " As opposed to Social Security. n/t jtuck004 Jul 2016 #1

This Social Security -only income person says Amen to that. nt silvershadow Jul 2016 #49

"The typical American couple has only $5,000 saved for retirement." RKP5637 Jul 2016 #2

Everyone has ideas bucolic_frolic Jul 2016 #3

Considering how crooked our sulphurdunn Jul 2016 #8

Yes Freddie Jul 2016 #33

That is partially true, St. Ronnie started taxing at 50% Bill Clinton raised it doc03 Jul 2016 #58

Remove the wage cap dynamo99 Jul 2016 #35

This is IMO the best option trc Jul 2016 #40

Those who receive "dividends" or stock in lieu of pay won't pay anything cpamomfromtexas Jul 2016 #44

That would help immensely Yupster Jul 2016 #45

Right on. Cass Jul 2016 #64

SSI is $740 a month. happyslug Jul 2016 #37

"other income" bucolic_frolic Jul 2016 #46

For SSI all is income. happyslug Jul 2016 #51

Social Security disagrees with you. former9thward Jul 2016 #47

"After midnight, during a session that began nearly two hours after it was scheduled, two amendments merrily Jul 2016 #4

Puzzling? Not to progressives 4dsc Jul 2016 #10

Hillary Rodham Clinton (on google) on Medicare and Social Security merrily Jul 2016 #13

Somehow it doesn't puzzle me at all. pangaia Jul 2016 #27

Me either. Silver_Witch Jul 2016 #52

"...both amendments failed by about the margin that Clinton enjoyed over Sanders..." George II Jul 2016 #20

You know I didn't write the article, right? merrily Jul 2016 #63

It was a pretty long article, but for some reason you chose to isolate that one short passage. George II Jul 2016 #65

Some reason? That passage describes the vote cited in the title of the article. merrily Jul 2016 #66

Actually, it really doesn't. The title of the article mentions $15 miminum wage and "stalemate".... George II Jul 2016 #67

Actually, it does. Also, it's still Sunday morning where I am and I usually enjoy my Sundays, but merrily Jul 2016 #68

Isn't Social Security a Republican program? Octafish Jul 2016 #5

If we don't expand Social Security we will just spend more on the disability and SSI part anyway hollowdweller Jul 2016 #6

this mopinko Jul 2016 #30

Yes -- and also we will ramp up fear if we don't expand Social Security. Great points you made! Akamai Jul 2016 #38

Republicans will have fun with this one Arizona Roadrunner Jul 2016 #7

An answer to that question sulphurdunn Jul 2016 #11

The way DU is now, you can have a post scrubbed for just quoting the words of NorthCarolina Jul 2016 #39

But as I was told here somewhere, it's just a piece of paper. pangaia Jul 2016 #28

Eliminate the cap on social security tax - problem solved groundloop Jul 2016 #9

To do that would require sulphurdunn Jul 2016 #12

That is the thing that needs to be done first, before other things can be addressed. still_one Jul 2016 #14

Apparently, scrapping the cap is what was rejected suffragette Jul 2016 #32

That is the direct solution to the Social Security short fall. Of course money should have never still_one Jul 2016 #41

Completely agree with you on scrapping the cap and that SS funds should not be used suffragette Jul 2016 #42

Sure it should. still_one Jul 2016 #43

Wouldn't that increase employer costs? seabeckind Jul 2016 #16

Those same employers enjoying record profits while stagnating wages? KeepItReal Jul 2016 #23

Yep. They didn't get record profits by increasing their labor costs. n/t seabeckind Jul 2016 #24

Walmart can go to $15/hour simply by cutting the size of its stock buyback. KeepItReal Jul 2016 #26

So then no 'cap' on the guaranteed ss check *everyone*(who paid in) including billionares get? Sunlei Jul 2016 #34

This is so sad... This is why I was a Bernie Sanders fan..oh well, we must carry on. I will secondwind Jul 2016 #15

Why do they not want to expand social security? RoccoR5955 Jul 2016 #17

deficit hawkery is still the order of the day. . .n/t annabanana Jul 2016 #19

So is expanding military spending. RoccoR5955 Jul 2016 #50

Increase in minimum wage helps fund social security also lostnfound Jul 2016 #18

Nina Turner is a smart women… Good work... midnight Jul 2016 #21

Great, now 70-year-olds who need to work can get paid better. L. Coyote Jul 2016 #22

Scrap the cap - No says HRC supporters daa Jul 2016 #25

Stalemate? Democrats?!!!???? ananda Jul 2016 #29

As someone who survives only on SS disability arithia Jul 2016 #31

I'm a payroll admin Freddie Jul 2016 #36

"I would feel terribly sorry for them" awoke_in_2003 Jul 2016 #53

Forgot the sarcasm thingy! Freddie Jul 2016 #54

Sorry awoke_in_2003 Jul 2016 #55

I am blown away how the Democrats shaping the platform are making it such a conservative one. avaistheone1 Jul 2016 #48

I am surprised they gave in on $15 and not SS. Ash_F Jul 2016 #56

sold their souls to wall street. pansypoo53219 Jul 2016 #57

$15 per hour minimum wage may be meaningless if TPP passes Arizona Roadrunner Jul 2016 #59

To be honest I would have preferred a platform that would take the setting of the minimum wage cstanleytech Jul 2016 #60

"The platform as it existed promised that Democrats would "expand" Social Security" Tactical Peek Jul 2016 #61

Stalemating on Social Security. chapdrum Jul 2016 #62

And the TPP? forest444 Jul 2016 #69

Those who oppose expanding social security are not really democrats Doctor_J Jul 2016 #70