{"id":31528,"date":"2012-08-15T12:09:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T16:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31528"},"modified":"2012-08-15T12:09:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T16:09:40","slug":"bernie-sanders-blind-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31528","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders’ blind spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a headline at Huffington Post<\/a> today;<\/p>\n

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While Social Security may be the “most successful” government program, I don’t think Sanders should be bragging about it since the news last month<\/a> that the program pays out more than it takes in.<\/p>\n

To keep Social Security’s finances sound in the future I have introduced legislation — identical to a proposal that Obama advocated in 2008 — to apply the payroll tax on incomes above $250,000 a year. Under current law, only earnings up to $110,100 are taxed. The Center for Economic Policy and Research has estimated that applying the Social Security payroll tax on income above $250,000 would only impact the wealthiest 1.4 percent of wage earners. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That makes complete sense, Bernie, you old commie, tax the people who will never collect a penny of Social Security. That’s not a transfer of wealth or class warfare at all, is it?<\/p>\n

I’ve been haunted by Sanders since I taught ROTC at UVM in Burlington, VT when Sanders was just the funny little carpetbagger communist mayor of Burlington. Who would have guessed that Vermonters would have inflicted him on the rest of us?<\/p>\n

There’s a guy back home who was fired from his job for smoking pot in the parking lot. Now no one will hire him, so he went on welfare, went through the dry out program, still can’t find a job, so he’s on SSI and started before he turned 50. I can’t imagine that he’s the only one like that, but it’s easier to keep people like that on the program and raise taxes on the rich than to make him get a job filling the ketchup baskets at McDs.<\/p>\n

While I’ll admit that, yeah, there’s a need for Social Security, there doesn’t need to be one that takes my money to pay a living wage to people who made bad choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a headline at Huffington Post today; While Social Security may be the “most successful” … Bernie Sanders’ blind spot<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,47,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks","category-liberals-suck","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}