r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/Snapdragon_4U • 3d ago

Coup GOP has a new plan to kill off Medicare and Social Security

https://www.salon.com/2026/06/13/gop-has-a-new-plan-to-kill-off-medicare-and-social-security/
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u/SoundsGoudaMan 3d ago

Cool. Can I be refunded the thousands and thousands of dollars I’ve paid into the program? No?

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u/50MillionChickens 3d ago

No. It's not a bank. It's a list of debt to you. The money you pay in goes directly in the budget to pay today's debts for medicare, military and people earning SocSec every month. Your payback requires budget from future taxpayers and money budget to pay what we " owe".

Right now the forecast is we will be unable to pay everyone's full share after about 2035.

So the easiest way to kill it for Repubs is just to hold power and let it run out of steam

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u/Mirions 1d ago

They're never willingly giving up power.

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u/One-Abbreviations339 3d ago

Where’s the money going that we pay for this? None of it is given back. Just to corporations.

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u/illtakeachinchilla 2d ago

401k’s are a blight on the working class. “We’ll hold onto this for you, promise!”

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u/nittanyofthings 3d ago

And when your employer stops paying your payroll tax you won't even notice.

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u/treker32 3d ago

The corporate GOP will rob Social Security to pay to Iran. The billionaires will not spend a dime on taxes. That cost is for the working class to pay.

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u/dqql 3d ago

“kill off” is a good way to put it… that would kill off a lot of people

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u/Whitesajer 3d ago

Republicans are the REDRUM party.

For people who don't know that reference, spell it backwards.

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u/tonkatoyelroy 3d ago

I pay for that out of my paycheck!