Steve

Manager, teacher, singer/actor, D&D player, past barbershop chorus director, non-profit board member. Non-partisan centrist. HE / HIM / HIS

[Steve @StephenE2011]

@TimGForReal @Themis_is_Here @SenRickScott U.S. life expectancy is 79. Why would you start paying SS benefits 4 years after the average life expectancy?

[Steve @StephenE2011]

@alexdaze198 @Themis_is_Here @SenRickScott The taxes you’ve been paying have mostly been covering current retirees. It’s not some savings account that your money is being earmarked for you. So yes, the trust fund is expected to run out of money in 2032. At that point benefits will be based solely on the taxes coming in.

[Steve @StephenE2011]

@EvrythngWllb0k @Foldedspace @Themis_is_Here @SenRickScott For anyone born after 1960, full retirement age is 67. You can earn more if you delay up to age 70. You are legally required to start taking benefits at age 70.

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@v01dp1r4t3 @Themis_is_Here @SenRickScott Don’t raise the cap. REMOVE the cap. People earning over $184,000 don’t need a tax break.

[Steve @StephenE2011]

@SenRickScott How do you propose balancing the budget without a tax increase? Where will you find nearly $2 trillion in cuts if you refuse in raise revenue? We’re paying nearly a trillion just on debt interest.

[Steve @StephenE2011]

@HubbsMcSteve @SenRickScott Do you consider all taxes to be theft? Or just this specific tax?

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@SRHowell71 @HQNewsNow Yes! That cap should have been removed years ago! There’s no cap on the Medicare tax, so why cap the Social Security tax? Just another tax break for the high wage earner.

[Steve @StephenE2011]

@HQNewsNow @ProjectLincoln Start by removing the cap on wages charged the Social Security tax. The Social Security shortfall was accelerated this week to 2032. At that point, everyone’s payments will be cut unless Congress starts addressing the problem. They’ve put it off for at least a decade.

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@mousecrackers @Ron_WatkinsQ @Tammie_grandma You need 60 to end debate. Good luck.

[Steve @StephenE2011]

@Ron_WatkinsQ He used the word “sir.” That’s a clear tell that he’s making shit up again.

[Steve @StephenE2011]

@Ridgerunner_86 @GigaBeers Sonoma Valley is in Northern California. Nowhere near Los Angeles so no impact on Pratt’s election. This photo has no context. Are those actual ballots with signatures or just empty envelopes? It’s a careless way to dispose of unused materials of the latter.

[Steve @StephenE2011]

@ResisterInGA @StarsgmaVargas @atrupar @RepJamesComer Clearly the President is not serious about finding and combating fraud. I hope someone finds a paper trail tying these pardons to political favors or other quidpro quo so can impeach and remove this corrupt man from the White House.

[Steve @StephenE2011]

@katbird4unc56 @_RichardCitizen Sounds like a perfect recipe for President Trump and the MAGA Party to seize control and steal elections. Without any proof or evidence of fraud, this is clearly a ploy to corrupt the election system in favor of the MAGA minority. This is how authoritarians govern.

[Steve @StephenE2011]

@_RichardCitizen The President has no constitutional authority over elections. The Constitution clearly states that the states run their own elections and only an act of Congress can make changes that would impact the state elections.

[Steve @StephenE2011]

@GrowSmarter_x What charges? What role did she play?

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@LuReid11 @GrowSmarter_x What did she allegedly confess?

[Steve @StephenE2011]

@1010hopeful @foxnewspolitics Even if you could use your drivers license, it is still a poll tax. Is there any state that issues a drivers license or state ID card free of charge? The point is moot. You need either a passport or picture ID and birth certificate (and married women need marriage certificate).

[Steve @StephenE2011]

@JeremyKillam @1010hopeful @foxnewspolitics It shouldn’t be a choice. It needs to be a requirement. Providing free government issued ID will cost money. Who will pay for it? The federal government? The states?

[Steve @StephenE2011]

@spremark @foxnewspolitics Until they write the law in a way that voter ID does not become a de facto poll tax, it shouldn’t pass. No one should have to pay a single cent to vote. It is a right of citizenship to cast your vote without hindrance.

[Steve @StephenE2011]

@Matka1776 @foxnewspolitics The origins date back to 1806. The first true filibuster occurred in 1837. The rule to close debate was introduced in 1917. In 1975 the supermajority to close debate was changed from 2/3 (67 votes) to 3/5 (60 votes). The rule makes the Senate more deliberative than the House.