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[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 16 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Exactly:

A similar reform could be instituted today, say by lifting the cap on earnings that are taxable by Social Security (currently $176,100).

They don’t want to pay into or keep an insurance program that they will never need. To keep it solvent, they would have to pay more into it, and they don’t want to, so they just want to get rid of it.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago

In what way?

However, Social Security, unlike a Ponzi scheme, is not inherently fraudulent, nor does the program promise "investors" artificially high returns with little to no risk, a hallmark of this kind of investment fraud. The report above, for example, shows the administration's transparency about expected returns. source

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

America platforms Nazis.

 

Right-wing billionaires have long wanted to shred the safety net. Under Trump, they’re using lies and fears over the deficit to debilitate Social Security.

 

Amid the chaos of the Trump administration’s first few weeks in office, a court case regarding the president’s legal right to stop payment of nearly US$2 billion in U.S. Agency for International Development contracts poses an important legal question whose answer may show just how strong the country’s separation of powers actually is.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

This is a really well done and important video that I hope everyone can take time to watch.

 

From Hollywood to the Daily Wire, white supremacy keeps telling the same story to maintain control—it's time we break the cycle.

 

Jubilee

 

"We will not accept oligarchy, we will not accept authoritarianism, we will not accept kleptocracy," the democratic socialist senator said. "We're gonna fight back, and we're gonna win."

 

The US is resetting, but not how the world expected

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Ladies and gentlemen, we got ‘em.

 

Hope begins when Democratic Party leadership gives way to the Left. Unions can make it happen.

 

Hasan Piker is a Twitch streamer and political commentator known for his leftist ideologies and reactions to current social issues.

Hasan Piker joins Theo to talk about Trump’s speech to congress, why he thinks no political party represents the workers of this country, and how he thinks America could use its immense wealth and power for good.

 

The Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees billions in aid and insures more than a trillion dollars in mortgages, is pondering using the blockchain and a stablecoin. One HUD official derided it as “monopoly money.”

 

Next up, transatlantic flights.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’ll try to remember to add a summary Thanks.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
 

The Yarbros

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

When we boycotting Dollar General?

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

You know what is best for you. Good luck.

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