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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (3500)	12/26/2016 2:04:59 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 354534

You post so much nonsense. You have no interest in finding solutions it is no surprise you cannot envision one. Why can all other Western democracies do it and we can't? We are the richest country! We are good for another 15 years or so and right now with social security, if you lift the cap, say doublet it we are probably good for another 30 or 40. In that time everything is going change so much, like increased productivity, that we can figure out other things to do. And the Medicare problem has everything to do with Bush tax cuts. What you cannot seem to get in your head is that we are a society. A very wealthy society, and we are a society that can afford to supplement Medicare to ensure that the old people are taken care of. The reason the Bush tax cuts and the stupid wars matter is that we seem to have no trouble finding seven trillion for those, except you don't think we can find that money to support Medicare. That is nuts. Why would you think the tax cuts don't matter? You take these right wing talking points and just throw them against the wall. How do you think Canada manages to have universal healthcare, or every other Western democracy?. They all take care of their old people, except us and we are the richest. Can't you put that together in your head? <<we have to do with SS is lift the cap which is ridiculously low and SS will be good for decades. Medicare helps so many old people so well. We are a rich enough country to figure it out. I don't think you grasp the magnitude of the problem, at all. Removing the SS cap will not come close to solving the SS problem. CBO has projected, correctly IMO, that in addition to eliminating the cap on SS you would have to massively increase the tax rate to reach even a 75-year solvency. What you're really talking about is making it totally a welfare program. The other point that liberals don't seem to understand is that there is only so much tax base. And Medicare is going to have to have a LOT of it to retain its solvency. I think if you would do the arithmetic you would understand these problems are more complex than you seem to understand. You fell apart talking about Medicare, I imagine, because you have no idea how big that problem is. Bush tax cuts had NOT ONE THING to do with these topics. You repeat the same old crap on this topic and you simply don't have any idea what you're talking about.