Trump Just Admitted on Live Television He Will 'Terminate' Social Security and Medicare If Reelected

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  1. Bluesguy

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    No and nothing fascinating about you not understanding it.
     
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    nope was talking about the EO so that it won’t have to be repaid
     
  3. struth

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    the mental gymnastics is fake news article and not listening to the man speak
     
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    Not what he said. Maybe he should say what he means. He clearly was talking about both.
     
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    yep he has the be made permanent to happen
     
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    Nope he outed his true intentions.
     
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    if only there was a way to offset the tax cuts to make sure SS was funded. Hmm...
     
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    I literally quoted what he said.
    Just because you don’t like what he said or have a different prospective of what he said does not make what he said “fake news”.
     
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    We could lower our military budget to that of the next five nations combined instead of ten. Maybe start there?
     
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    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That is literally what he said and literally what you are saying he didn’t mean.
     
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    Sure, if we first get our military out of everyone's backyard. But that would just be a drop in the bucket.
     
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    Why play these games?

    The story, and thread, are clickbait/flamebait lies.

    Disappointing.
     
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    You shouldn't have posted this ridiculous thread outside of the Conspiracy Forum.
     
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    Dump could care less about the people who do the grunt work in America....so long as he's rich and safe from legal prosecution.

    Remember, if the GOP had it's way a whole lot of retiring people would have been screwed out of their Soc Sec during the recent Wall St. debacle.
     
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    I can't wait to hear what Trumps alternate funding sources are for social security and Medicare if he terminates FICA taxes
     
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    I wonder sometimes about this SS Trust fund. Did someone say it holds US Treasuries? So from what group of people does the money come from to buy these treasuries? From what group will the money come from to pay off these treasuries? The same group that bought them in the first place? <scratches head in confusion>
     
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    This thread is fake news and completely debunked. Nothing but crap.
     
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    This is what happens when people don't think. No politician with half a brain would publicly advocate killing social security. It would be political suicide. Aside from that there are obviously avenues that can be used to make sure social security is funded despite tax cuts. But like I have said previously emotion is stronger than facts. So, saying social security can still be funded and here is how will always lose out to "Trump wants to end social security". Even though he never said that.
     
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    Yup.

    Trump says "Boo!" & the MSM says this proves he's the ghost of Hitler.
     
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    Yes.

    But why does it say "Banned" under your avatar???
     
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    I thought it was some weird glitch...
     
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    In 2012 Botox Pelosi said the payroll tax is a "jobs booster". I wonder what caused her to change her mind...
     
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    "Trump Just Admitted on Live Television He Will 'Terminate' Social Security and Medicare If Reelected"
     
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    The law which creates an indirect link from payroll taxes to Social Security is that the Congress must hand over to the SSA the amount collected in payroll taxes.What is not needed by SSA for the current year is credited to them in the form of Treasury Bonds which makes up the scam they call a "Trust Fund." It's not cash or savings or investment. What happens when you cash a Treasury Bond? The government gives you cash from it's current funds. The same happens with Social Security. What the government is essentially doing is giving Social Security a bunch of checks to cash when it needs the money. There's nothing, however, that stops the Congress from simply budgeting the money for SS as it does for everything else, should the Trust Fund dry up and payroll taxes not be enough (or non-existent.) They just want to create the usual division by selling ti as underfunded "insurance."
     
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    We got that wall done yet ? Promises Promises ..
     

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