A panel comprised of three-quarters of the House Republican caucus released a budget proposal on Wednesday that would raise the Social Security retirement age—cutting benefits across the board—while further privatizing Medicare and slashing taxes for the rich, a plan that Democratic lawmakers and progressive advocacy groups said is a clear statement of the GOP’s warped priorities ahead of a critical spending fightthis fall.
The proposal outlined by the 175-member Republican Study Committee (RSC), led by Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.), would gradually raise Social Security’s full retirement age—the age at which people are eligible for full Social Security benefits—to 69, up from the current level of 67 for those born in 1960 or later.
Nancy Altman, the president of Social Security Works, said the RSC budget would “destroy Social Security as we know it,” using a “modest shortfall” that’s more than a decade […]
I depend on Social Security. If these STUPID Republicans do anything to make S.S. less than it is, I will be ready to go to war with them. As it is I only get as much money on Social Security as the Federal Poverty Rate! I do not even get enough on S.S. to survive! I need more income, not less. If the Republicans want to get rid of my only source of income, I will be ready to go to war with them and even die if I have to in order to keep or enlarge the amount I get.
Republicans BEWARE!
Can the president not veto such idiocy? I would like to know more about what he can and cannot veto.