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Trump attacks social security?

Is Trump deliberately attacking social security and medicare?

  • Yes, it's an attack on social security and medicare

    Votes: 12 100.0%

  • No, Trump is making a mistake, he makes a lot of mistakes

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    12
  • Poll closed .
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Trump signed an executive action Saturday deferring the employee portion of payroll taxes -- 6.2% for Social Security and 1.45% for Medicare -- for workers making less than $100,000 a year through the rest of 2020.

If he's reelected, Trump said, he plans to forgive the taxes and make permanent cuts to the payroll taxes.

"I'm going to make them all permanent," he said.

Otherwise, presumably, workers would have to pay the taxes at the end of the year.

Coronavirus has already dealt a blow to Social Security's finances. Trump's payroll tax holiday could make it worse
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Is Trump deliberately attacking social security and medicare?
 
These two issues are where the rubber meets the road. Let the base of the gop start to think this might actually happen and watch the gop disintegrate into nothingness.
 
Trump stated yesterday that if re-elected, he will order that payroll taxes that finance Social Security and Medicare be ended permanently.

The Executive Order" he signed yesterday temporarily stops the collection of SS taxes. This is already being challenged in court.

Trump is again trampling on the US Constitution and the separation of powers. Only Congress has the Constitutional power to levy/amend/eliminate taxes.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Trump stated yesterday that if re-elected, he will order that payroll taxes that finance Social Security and Medicare be ended permanently.

The Executive Order" he signed yesterday temporarily stops the collection of SS taxes. This is already being challenged in court.

Trump is again trampling on the US Constitution and the separation of powers. Only Congress has the Constitutional power to levy/amend/eliminate taxes.
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Trump doesn't give a dang about anybody but himself people should have seen that by now
It amazes me that there are people in states like Fla. that see what he is doing and still back him
I guess they will have that money they paid into SS taken away from them before it his them in the face
Have a nice day
 
He differed the social security tax. That means April 15 you will have to pay it back.

He said if he were reelected then he would forgive the tax and make the payroll tax cut permanent.

He knows that won't happen but it will put democrats in a bad spot.
 
Didn't see an option for both.

The moron obviously thinks this will make a hero, but he also wants to gut SS and Medicare.
 
swing_voter said:
Is Trump deliberately attacking social security and medicare?
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Again with the "loaded question" surveys?

Both of your options are negatively biased, i.e. no matter which one picked, it reflects negatively on the subject of the question.

I cannot select either answer.
 
The real question is, did he just throw Florida and Arizona to Democrats? We all know over 65's depend on both those programs.
 
Captain Adverse said:
Again with the "loaded question" surveys?

Both of your options are negatively biased, i.e. no matter which one picked, it reflects negatively on the subject of the question.

I cannot select either answer.
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Don't worry, you will come up with some way of rationalizing Trump's actions, just think on it more.
 
Tbird19482 said:
Trump doesn't give a dang about anybody but himself people should have seen that by now
It amazes me that there are people in states like Fla. that see what he is doing and still back him
I guess they will have that money they paid into SS taken away from them before it his them in the face
Have a nice day
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This is why I think he knows he's a loser like his parents told him and he wants to lose.

What does he care about SS and Medicare, it's a losing issue, he's obese and in his 70s. if he's smart, since he doesn't care about anything he should write an executive order saying he will put in Medicare for All and $1,000 a month for everyone.
 
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