26 Mar 2025 9:10 am
I used to think in the same way until I learned my Mom was living below the poverty level WITH social security. I sat in front of a shredder for days going through 30 years of paperwork and financials. There was a period in the early 2000's she was spending down to less than a hundred dollars in the checkbook waiting for the next SS to arrive. That revelation scarred me for life as we could have easily helped financially. I confronted her with that information and with tears in her eyes said she didn't want to be a burden on us.Skans » 26 Mar 2025, 7:26 am » wrote: ↑ You said it the way it really is. This is why anyone under the age of 55 MUST tell Trump and the Administration to immediately wind down social in-security.
High income households pay a pretty penny in payroll taxes, even more so if self employed. Suck it up buttercup like the rest of us have.
Data:
In 2022, approximately 10.2% of adults aged 65 and older, or 5.9 million people, lived in poverty according to the official poverty measure, while the Supplemental Poverty Measure indicated that 14.2%, or 8.2 million, lived in poverty.
Your plan would explode Medicaid.