Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Saturday that one of his top priorities, once he takes control of the chamber’s Social Security Subcommittee in January, will be to lift the cap on taxable income that funds the program and increase benefit payments by at least $2400 per year.
I’m not. You’re intrepreting me as saying I don’t think we should raise SS. I think we should. I’m asking why it should be the first priority. You reply we should do it first to prevent homelessness–so you are introducing an issue that is more important.
First off, let’s get the wording clear here. The statement was “one of his top priorities” not first priority.
Second, if you think that we should remove the cap off of social security then we’re done here. You, think that the removal of the cap is necessary, I think it’s necessary, Sanders thinks it’s necessary. We’re all in agreement, huzzah! The fact that if it’s first, second, third, which again was not the wording being used, is moot outside of your disdain of the elderly.
we should increase the rate above the cap to make up for, uh, let’s sell it as undoing a communism.
Huzzah!