Tim Pool asked Rand Paul what options are available to save Social Security, the program benefits that Joe Biden handed out liberally to illegal aliens.
“What do we do?” Pool asked.
“Well with Social Security,” Paul said, “you’re going to have to start receiving it at a later age, you know. And I’ve said the age has to go to 70. In the early 1980s, we went from 65 to 67 over about a 20 year period. It’s not pleasant news to tell you, but it’s the only thing you can do.
“You could also raise Social Security taxes dramatically. Right now. You pay 15%. You pay seven and a half, and your employer pays seven and a half. But really, you pay 15%. If you want to pay 25%, you can keep Social Security the way it is, if you want to pay 25% of your check to Social Security. But most people, you tell them that, and most political politicians say, Well, gosh, that’d be devastating on the working guy to have a 25% tax on everybody.”
Ironically, Democrats constantly accuse Republicans of trying to ruin Social Security, but they are the ones who taxed it and tacked welfare to it. Now, they give it to illegal aliens.
To be fair, both parties used Social Security as their personal ATM to buy votes.
Personally, I paid the max to Social Security throughout most of my career. Where did my money go? It was supposed to only be for the elderly and handicapped.
Unbelievable…
Rand Paul wants you to be 70 Years old before you can collect social security, OR, raise everyone’s social security tax to 25% to keep it at 67.
The life expectancy for an American today is 78.4 years. So he wants Americans to enjoy only 8 years of peace (if… pic.twitter.com/70mldQDtg3
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Rand Paul is lying. There are multiple hundreds of government programs that could be completely shut down to save money, and then those funds could be used to rebuild social security. Untold numbers of us have worked all of our lives and paid in thousands upon thousands so we might reap some small benefit upon retirement. I have doubts I… Read more »
Rand has exposed himself lately as not a smart person though he is a doctor. I have little confidence in doctors anymore, after 98% of them pushed the poison jab for money. His selection of issues to highlight is backhanded and contradictory. Consider his contradiction you wrote about. He is a supposed budget hawk, yet ignores all of the major… Read more »
Long term, Socialized inSecurity and all other welfare and social programs need to end.
We pay into social security not sit on our arses like a certain race and collect checks for spitting out kids by unknown men.
Manfred does not want you to pay into a bad system.
It is well known that the SS system has been a very inefficient way to handle money. The market would have been much better.