Jim Hightower -- The Right-Wing Attack on Social Security is Un-American

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Jim Hightower
August 29, 2024


Right-wing ideologues are mounting a three-pronged fraud trying to delegitimize Social Security, slash it's benefits, then -- zzzzzt -- kill it.

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While working stiffs pay this tax on every dollar they earn, millionaires and billionaires are taxed only on the first $170,000 of their astronomical pay.
Take Elon Musk, the richest man in America, who claimed a $45 billion paycheck last year.
But under current law he only pays Social Security taxes on $170,000 of that -- meaning 44 billion, 999 million, 830 thousand dollars of his income goes untaxed.
Why shouldn't he pay like everyone else?

Tax everyone equally -- the rich as well as the working class -- so everyone can have a secure, dignified retirement.
That's what the American concept of the Common Good means.

More:
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/the-right-wing-attack-on-social-security/

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1. But that's the whole point:

Not only to destroy the New Deal and the Great Society.

It's to dismantle and to destroy the constitutional republic as this country was founded on and still exists.

To reconfigure the country into a fascist oligarchy.

And a lot of people won't see it coming, partially because it will be gradual.

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3. Its gradualness is the killer!!

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2. Do away with the cap & it would easily extend the solvency of SS