Might anything happen to social security?

[Quadzilla99]

Srs question

[DMC]

yes

srs answer

[William Hung]

cool thread

srs compliment

[SnakeBoy]

Trump said he won't touch it and Ryan just said he has bigger fish to fry...so no.

[DPG21920]

I really hope there is some tax reform. Make companies pay what they owe and make it far less complicated. There is no reason for it to be so complex IMO.

[boutons_deux]

I really hope there is some tax reform. Make companies pay what they owe and make it far less complicated. There is no reason for it to be so complex IMO.

complexity is no accident. complexity gives opacity. tax breaks, scams are stuck into, snuck into tax bills because somebody pays and somebody got paid.

[baseline bum]

Trump said he won't touch it and Ryan just said he has bigger fish to fry...so no.

Ryan still want to kick everyone but the baby boomers off Medicare?

[boutons_deux]

There's some talk off diverting some %age of SS payments to Wall St, with the ultimate go of screwing everybody out of $Bs of fees the way 401Ks do.

The BigFinance goal is to fuckup and bankrupt SS so BigFinance would get 100% of SS payments, and pocket $100Bs of hidden fees every year.

Fed Medicaid is supposed to changed to block grants to the states, so they can do whatever they want with those $100Bs, like pay their BigDonors.

Medicare is to be abolished, replaced with totally insufficient vouchers so seniors would have to go into the individual insurance market swamp.

[AaronY]

Ryan still want to kick everyone but the baby boomers off Medicare?
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/paul-ryan-says-medicare-privatization-is-on.html

[pgardn]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/paul-ryan-says-medicare-privatization-is-on.html

Trump has to go for that as well.

Privatization of certain government functions is a fairly widespread Republican "we can agree on" starter.

[baseline bum]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/paul-ryan-says-medicare-privatization-is-on.html

Of course. Their fucking mandate because they won the election by -1.5 points.

[Winehole23]

Better get their licks in quick. Congressional majorities are impermanent.

[Winehole23]

There's going to be some institutional friction, even with Republicans running both congressional bodies. Be interesting to see if Congress and Trump sing from the same sheet.

[pgardn]

Of course. Their fucking mandate because they won the election by -1.5 points.

I feel that this is very understated as Hillary was supposed to win big. This was not a Briexit margin even 52-48