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By raft and on foot, migrants cross Rio Grande from Mexico to Texas
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
For your argument to make sense, you would have to show that undocumented aliens' contributions are akl that's s standing between Social Security and failure. Got any actual figures to share with us? And there is a simple solution to ensuring that Social Security will always be able to pay out the benefits that it owes: remove the income cap. "Raising the tax cap could increase higher earners’ benefits as well, depending on how policymakers treated newly taxed earnings. Changes to the tax cap could close roughly a quarter to nearly nine-tenths of Social Security’s solvency gap, depending on how they were structured." https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/increasing-payroll-taxes-would-strengthen-social-security#:~:text=Eliminating the cap would make,higher earners would pay more. And if you dismantle payroll tax avoidance schemes such as subchapter S corporations, which are there to benefit the wealthiest 10%, Social Security would be rolling in dough. Or subject stock option incentives to SS tax. Or, heaven forbid, treating capital gains just like earned income. -
Eleven Conservatives now bidding to be next UK prime minister
placeholder replied to CharlieH's topic in World News
Please, share with us some of your progressive views. -
Eleven Conservatives now bidding to be next UK prime minister
placeholder replied to CharlieH's topic in World News
Well, I do understand how you think. And as not just your comments but your likes and dislike emojis show in topics other than UK politics, you lean hard right. -
Eleven Conservatives now bidding to be next UK prime minister
placeholder replied to CharlieH's topic in World News
So, it's just an amazing coincidence that all your comments and your emoji likes and dislikes follow a right wing line? Laughable. -
Eleven Conservatives now bidding to be next UK prime minister
placeholder replied to CharlieH's topic in World News
It's significant that you have to go that far back to make the current government look good. Was it in this thread that some claimed that Labour would be even worse? You right-wingers set a very low bar to defend this government. -
By raft and on foot, migrants cross Rio Grande from Mexico to Texas
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
Thank you for the environmental disaster. Just what the Southwest needs. -
Eleven Conservatives now bidding to be next UK prime minister
placeholder replied to CharlieH's topic in World News
So, on the one hand "it's not his money" was your original defense and now you've switched to don't they all. Contradicting yourself much? -
Yard by yard, the Ukrainians appear to be pushing toward Kherson
placeholder replied to onthedarkside's topic in World News
But not past time to ask who benefits if Ukraine surrenders. -
Eleven Conservatives now bidding to be next UK prime minister
placeholder replied to CharlieH's topic in World News
You should tell that to Rees-Mogg who predicted it would take 50 years. Your news might cheer him up considerably. -
Brexit: UK's divorce bill from EU could rise to £42.5bn
placeholder replied to CharlieH's topic in World News
Actually the majority of the people in the north support the agreement. Unfortunately for them, the DUP minority doesn't. I guess that majority support constitutes and emergency in the minds of the Tories. Not much love for democracy there. Brexit: Support for Northern Ireland Protocol 'edging upwards', opinion poll finds An increasing number of voters support the Northern Ireland Protocol, according to a new opinion poll. Some 55% of people surveyed view the protocol as appropriate for managing the impact of Brexit on Northern Ireland - an increase from 47% a year ago - while 38% disagree. https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/brexit-support-northern-ireland-protocol-24345009 -
Trump ex-adviser Bannon convicted of contempt of U.S. Congress
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
To what portion of Bannon's visible anatomy can the term "groomed" be correctly applied?