Here is some history and citations. Notice Reagan's role!! Just goggle Reagan, the Republicans and social security and medicare. Are all of the articles full of bullshit?
"1981: Reagan administration begins a wholesale review of the Social Security Disability rolls, resulting in over 560,000 eligibility investigations in 1982 — 360,000 more than the year before. Ultimately, at least 106,000 families were removed from the rolls.
1981: 99 percent of Republicans in House and 98 percent in Senate vote for legislation containing $22 billion in Social Security and Medicare cuts.
1981: Reagan administration proposes three-month delay in 1982 cost-of-living increases."
Reagan and the Republicans have hated social security for a long time. Reagan did not want to save it, he wanted a slush fund.
The Republicans fought FDR on setting it up.
Bush tried to privatize it.
Ryan has said he wanted to get rid of it his whole life and now the Republicans are talking about raiding it to pay for the recent tax cuts.
The tax on social security started as part of Reagan's assault on SS in 1984
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Remember When Republicans Said Social Security And Medicare Would Destroy Freedod.1935: Almost all Republicans in Congress oppose the creation of Social Security.
HISTORY
1939: 75percent of Republicans in Senate try to kill legislation providing Social Security benefits to dependents and survivors as well as retired workers.
1950: 79 percent of House and 89 percent of Senate Republicans vote against disability insurance to defeat it.
1956: 86 percent of Republicans in Senate oppose disability insurance; program approved nonetheless.
1964: Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan both suggest that Social Security be made voluntary.
1965: 93 percent of Republicans in House and 62 percent in Senate vote to kill Medicare.
1977: 58 percent of Senate votes against amendment to provide semiannual increases.
1977: 88 percent of Republicans in House and 63 percent in Senate vote against increase in Social Security payroll tax needed to keep system solvent.
1981: White House proposes $35 billion in Social Security cuts over the next 5 years. The cuts would have included elimination of student benefits, lump-sum death benefits, and a retroactive elimination of the $122 minimum benefit for three million recipients. (Congress ultimately enacted $24 billion of the proposed cuts.)
1981: Reagan administration begins a wholesale review of the Social Security Disability rolls, resulting in over 560,000 eligibility investigations in 1982 — 360,000 more than the year before. Ultimately, at least 106,000 families were removed from the rolls.
1981: 99 percent of Republicans in House and 98 percent in Senate vote for legislation containing $22 billion in Social Security and Medicare cuts.
1981: Reagan administration proposes three-month delay in 1982 cost-of-living increases.
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