Most posters here know all this but just in case I thought a refresher course was in order. I think the posters on DR are divided between those who know that we were lied to about SS taxes, the rich wanted us to pay more income taxes so they pretended that SS taxes were really for our retirements when, in reality, they were really used to replace the income taxes that the wealthy didn't want to pay. Today, we will either let them get away with it or demand that they pay high enough taxes to pay for the wars they started unnecessarily. I say they should pay much more so that the money we paid in every week for all those years, for our retirements, remains as what it was intended to be when we paid it in.

"Danni, have you ever found his grave so you can piss on it?"

I'm asking y'all to listen to what he said. Are you saying that he was insincere? That he was really bamboozling the American middle class?

"other than those of the highest wealth who understand co-mingling it benefits them."

And they control a portion of Congress which wants us to accept cuts which are not financially necessary by SS accounting because to fund the owed benefits and reduce the deficit at the same time will require tax increases on those wealthiest, I suggest, as did Ronald Reagan, that we tax capital gains at the same rate as regular income. I also suggest that we eliminate tax breaks for companies that outsource jobs, breaks that give big refunds to companies that pay no income taxes, etc. The rich folks who opposed the Iraq invasion should realize that their bretheren who did support it are going to cost them big bucks. Unnecessary wars need to have consequences for those who sell them and support them.