Thread: Neutered Dems are all bark, no bite on Trump's nominees

Congressman Tom Price, please review this link of Social Security and Medicare Payroll Tax Rates in the United States since 1937 and please realize that the ONLY problem with Social Security and Medicare is the loss of good manufacturing jobs and the fact that the US Congress has not raised payroll tax rates in 30 years for Medicare and 26 years for Social Security. If they are running low on funds or not building up the Trust Fund to the degree necessary to keep it solvent then it is the absolute responsibility of the US Congress to raise the rates to solve the problem. You do not raise the retirement age to avoid a simple rate increase, you do not strip benefits, you do not privatize, you do not change two of the best run government programs in US history. You just don't try to run a con to fix something that isn't broken. I hope we can raise the benefits for SS after we have fixed our country and perhaps before that increase the Medicare 80/20 to 100/0 at some point and adjust the premium charge for beneficiaries to pay for it.

I've noticed with a family member who has employer supplemental that the paperwork expense of this current arrangement is just not worth it, especially for elderly and sick people and exhausted families. This would also streamline the whole thing and get rid of the duplicity of seniors who are on both Medicare and Medicaid. This would also eliminate the reluctance of Doctors to take Medicare patients, they know they would get paid with simpler paperwork and fewer accountants, and this would also relieve pension and retirement funds which would reduce the cost of employer funded retirement programs and encourage more of them.

So I want Paul Ryan out of the Congress, I think he is a total and complete Goof Ball and have for awhile now. Having him as your speaker does not reflect well on the members of Congress who voted for him.

Now I want Trump's team, Congressman Price and every member of Congress to look at the chart below and explain to me how any of you can be whining about Social Security and Medicare "going broke" when you haven't passed a Payroll Tax Rate for Social Security in 26 years and haven't passed a Payroll Tax Rate for Medicare in 30 years. How is that possible? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/sites...historical.pdf

This citizen wants to give a big THANK YOU to the employees and managers of the Social Security Administration, who have proven decade after decade, that it is without question the best run, best managed most responsible agency in the United States Government. How any agency could have managed to meet its obligations without a tax rate increase in 30 years especially one that involves medical care is to me just unbelievable. WELL DONE! That said, to expect them to continue on this without a rate increase while claiming Medicare is going to be "broke" by 2028 is a fraud on the part of Paul Ryan.

I'm not saying there may not be better ways to improve both systems, which would be more benefits at a lower cost NOT less benefits at a higher cost (that is the opposite of responsible governance), but neither one of these is broken, neither one of these needs to be "fixed", and yes they both may require a tax rate increase, but that is your responsibility to do under the Social Security Administration Act whenever it is needed or required. When Trump brings all of our jobs back and fixes the jobs and wages disaster we're in, you may not even need rate increases at all and if you pass the FairTax, I know you won't need to increase anything except benefits.

So SHUT UP ABOUT MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY. Neither one are problems. We have real problems for you to fix which is to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a great private interstate system for individuals and employers. Our health insurance industry will take care of the health insurance problem when Trump takes care of our economic, border, trade, and immigration problems.