Patrick Heizer
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@PatrickHeizer
Biomedical engineer, permaculture farmer, Camus scholar, Maryland supremacy, husband, and father.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) breaks his silence, says he went to the hospital for a fall last month and was then diagnosed with pneumonia. Office also releases this photo. “And last month, I took a fall which landed me in the hospital. My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia,” McConnell wrote in a letter to Kentuckians.
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You are wearing historical blinders and not assessing the board as it is. We are living through a tax revolt, with nearly every cohort pushing back on **current taxes.** We aren't increasing the payroll tax and then getting additional trillions. That is delusional.
This is totally wrong. Eliminating the cap would raise $2.5-$3 trillion over 10 years. That’s less than 1% of GDP. We are, today, 3% below pre-Bush tax cut levels.
No, for all intents and purposes, an additional 6.2%/12.4% tax on high earners would pretty much exhaust our ability to raise additional revenue. Every other policy objective that would require additional revenue would have to be placed on the back burner.
@PatrickHeizer If you’re worried about rich people not contributing appropriately, I agree! Better to actually tax rich people than cut Social Security. And raising the payroll max in no way exhausts our ability to raise revenue.
Reducing Social Security to a more basic program is the only sustainable solution. Benefits need to be cut, the retirement age needs to be raised. Anything less is generational theft.
US Veterans' Benefits payments as a % of Total US Defense Department spend, 1959-present. Veterans' Benefits now a record 27% of DoD spend (and ~8% of total US Federal receipts), rising far faster than both DoD spend & Federal receipts.
Is this it? Is the average American just too boring to imagine what they might do with an extra $5000/year except buy a nicer car?
This is genuinely the best part of our entire planet
Reducing Social Security to a more basic program is the only sustainable solution. Benefits need to be cut, the retirement age needs to be raised. Anything less is generational theft.
