Tag: National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare

Raising Social Security’s retirement age would slam low-wage workers yet again

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

A proposal by Sens. Angus King (I-ME) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) to raise the Social Security retirement age to 70 would be a massive benefit cut, particularly affecting low-wage workers. If Congress enacts it, millions more Social Security taxpayers would not live long enough to collect a cent in retirement benefits.

Raising Social Security’s retirement age would slam low-wage workers yet again

Related:

Social Security Solvency: Raised Retirement Age More Likely as Congress Fails to Compromise

Democrats Introduce Plan To “Fix” Social Security, the way we “fixed” the cat

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

“Democrats Introduce Plan To Fix Social Security, the way we fixed the cat”

And here is the tragedy. The people who have saved Social Security in the past from “bipartisan” efforts to destroy it, have been seduced into selling it out for a promise of higher benefits paid for by the rich, “The Rich” couldn’t have come up with a better plan if they thought of it themselves