lemme in@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.world · 3 days agoRepublicans break protocol to kill Social Security benefits expansion billwww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1348arrow-down15
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minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 days agoThis is basically a massive tax.
minus-squarerotten@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down11·2 days agoSame as how I’m paying into social security I’ll never collect. Same as how inflation punished me for saving and cut the value of the currency almost in half.
minus-squarerotten@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down7·2 days agoThat was the covid spending, the inflation reduction act, the constant wars. Literally the one thing both sides agreed on.
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoTaxes pay for nothing. Taxes are an anti-inflationary device. Please read up on modern economic theory.
This is basically a massive tax.
Same as how I’m paying into social security I’ll never collect. Same as how inflation punished me for saving and cut the value of the currency almost in half.
That was Republicans.
That was the covid spending, the inflation reduction act, the constant wars. Literally the one thing both sides agreed on.
Taxes pay for nothing. Taxes are an anti-inflationary device. Please read up on modern economic theory.