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This year, a couple retiring at the normal retirement age (~67) could collect $100,000 in Social Security benefits. ๐ฐ๐ต
Our new Six Figure Limit would cap benefits at that level.
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Marc Goldwein
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Marc Goldwein
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Proud dad. Nonpartisan budget wonk + econ prof. Tweeting on fiscal & economic policy & the world. Thoughts are ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง!
- If Sadam has to ability to travel through time and space and still lost two Gulf Wars, thatโs really on him.The truth about Iraq.
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Raise your hand if you want this plane landing in your town? America paid unimaginable costs in Afghanistan because of uniparty globalists who dominated the Bush & Obama administrations. No moreโฆ- This is not what they found. They found 394 Social Security numbers. Less than 70 million belong to recipients. 180 million belong to workers paying payroll taxes โ including non-citizens with green cards or work visas. Most of the rest belong to non-workers, especiallyBREAKING: DOGE has discovered that there are 394 million Social Security recipients in the U.S. There are only 334 million citizens in the U.S....Readers added contextFournier's claim is false and he provides no evidence to support it. While the databases do include hundreds of millions of Social Security numbers, most of those numbers belong to people who are not currently receiving benefits. There are around 68 million SS recipients. nytimes.com/2025/02/19/upsโฆ ssa.gov/oact/STATS/OASโฆ
- Student debt cancellation will: โซ๏ธ Cost $400 to $600 billion โซ๏ธ Wipe out Inflation Reduction Act savings twice over โซ๏ธ Add up to a quarter point to inflation โซ๏ธ Benefit MDs, JDs, and MBAs โซ๏ธ Drive up tuition costs โซ๏ธ Increase risk or recession Great job, folks.
- Q. Can you microwave a metal fork? A. Yes. The microwave is big enough to fit the fork, and will turn on with the fork in it if you hit the start buttonQ: Can we afford a #GreenNewDeal? A: Yes. The federal government can afford to buy whatever is for sale in its own currency.
- Every $1 you cut IRS funding will lose about $2 of revenue. So that means this bill would add about $30 billion to the deficit.NEWS w @bresreports -- HOUSE REPUBLICANS' Israel aid bill is out. It offsets $14.3 billion in Israel aid with $14.3 bllion in cuts to IRS from the Inflation Reduction Act. This offset will NEVER, EVER fly. Dems will reject it out of hand. Here's the bill:crfb.orgIRS Rescission Would Worsen Deficits | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget2023-10-18-Rescinding $25 billion of IRS funding would result in the loss of $49 billion in revenue and increase deficits by $24 billion over ten years, according to the
- 1) Regressive 2) Expensive 3) Makes inflation worse 4) Drives Up Tuition 5) Totally Unfair 6) Leads to more bogus degree programs 7) Disproportionately benefits MDs & JDs making 6 figures 8) Does nothing for the 87% of people - disproportionately poorer - with no student debtI still havenโt heard a reason against student debt cancelation that isnโt rooted in cruelty.
- I very strongly support President Biden's call for a broad vaccine mandate, and think it takes real leadership to call for it. But I do think it's true that if Trump had proposed the same policy, most of left-twitter would be freaking out right now.
- Amazing that we removed 1/5 of people collecting benefits and costs still went up 8%. Itโs almost like that never happenedโฆ
DOGE removed 12.3 million people from Social Security. The majority were over 120 years old. Some still receiving checks. $2,008 is the average monthly SS payout. Who was getting that money? Now tell me thereโs noโฆ EBT fraud. Voter fraud. SNAP fraud. Etc Audit everything. - This isnโt antisemitismHey @Delta - did you add Palestine as a new summer route? Your customers on a Boston to West Palm Beach flight yesterday were perplexed to see your flight attendant adorning a flag of Palestine pin.
- Sad to see he couldnโt turn his life around.A judge gave a drug dealer a second chance. Sixteen years later, he swore him in as a lawyer. wapo.st/3bUycc1
