YES! Everything must be on the table to help the economy.
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NO! Any deal that cuts social programs is not balanced.
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Raising the income cap for FISA deductions would secure Social Security, according to Sen. Bernie Sanders, and is a common sense approach to serving public needs well beyond the baby boomers.
As Reagan pointed out in 1984, "Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit."
President Clinton used the Social Security funds to pay off the National debt with an IOU to us the fund payers. Now the Republicans want to take away our social security by portraying social security as an entitlement. Social Security is not an entitlement but money we put into it to be paid back to us. However, Clinton used our money to pay off the debt now the Republicans want to reneg on the deal to pay us back. What a country and a bunch of liars to boot. Tax the Rich!!!!!!!!!!
Balanced? Medicare and social security are the least we can do for working people who pay for it out of their meager earnings! If you want to talk about medicare for all and raising social security that would be a big step towards "balanced"! Maybe when average earnings jump even by half of what they have for CEO's in the last ten years we can start to approach "balanced?! But not untill the banksters, warmongers, billionaires and hundred millionaires have paid down the deficit they created. Balanced? As long as there is a single hungry child, how about a 95% tax rate on earnings above $10 million? That would encourage investment. And now that wealthy people have extracted the majority of the wealth from we the people can we please tax capital gains at a rate at least as high as we tax people who actually work for a living?
The only change that should be made to Social Security is eliminating the earnings cap. That would ensure the program's solvency in perpetuity.