Calling to cut social security benefits for upper-income earners, as many conservatives are now doing, is essentially the same thing as eliminating the cap without increasing benefits (which is what Bernie Moreno stupidly suggested today).
You get taxed at 12.4% on the premise and promise that you'll get that back upon retirement. The Social Security payment is essentially a delayed, often negative-return tax refund. Cutting benefits reduces that tax refund and is therefore a tax increase....essentially the same as increasing the cap/eliminating the cap without increasing benefits.
I suggest we just lower the cap, which would therefore lower future liabilities on a gross basis. Instead of being on the hook for paying back/refunding 70 million people at up to $5000 a month in 2026 dollars (increasing at the rate of CPI-U inflation every year, and compounding), we would be on the hook for something closer to $2400 a month maximum in 2026 dollars (increasing at the rate of CPI-U inflation every year, and compounding).
This proposal would also be politically popular while not leading to claims of "starving" grandma.
Absolutely terrible. The biggest tax hike in decades, and 100% of the revenue would go to (often wealthy) retirees so that they can keep collecting more than they paid in.
Oh, and it keeps Social Security out of deficit for just 4 years. What happened to the Republican party?
History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.
Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.
And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.
You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.
I can’t believe I have to say this but you can be a leftist and still root for team USA in the World Cup… and honestly not rooting for team USA simply because you’re a leftist is the most performative shit ever…
Congratulations to Zach Lahn!
Voters took a stand and supported a MAHA candidate in a tight primary race.
Steak n Shake remains undefeated in political endorsements. 🐄🍔🇺🇸
A doorbell camera captures two Soldiers—one a battle-hardened Sergeant Major, the other an officer—standing at a family’s door in full dress uniform. They wait with quiet dignity, heads up, eyes steady. The weight of what they’re there to do is written on their faces.
They’re not delivering good news.
As we approach Memorial Day, it’s easy to post flags and barbecues. But this is the real cost. Since our nation’s founding, as many as 1.4 million American service members have made the ultimate sacrifice—fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters—who never came home.
Every Gold Star family knows that knock. Every folded flag, every name on a wall, every empty seat at the table carries a story of love, duty, and unbearable loss.
Tonight I’m praying for every family who’s ever answered that door. For every name we must never forget. And for the brave men and women in uniform who still carry the hardest mission of all: telling a family their hero is gone.
We owe them everything.
Freedom isn’t free. It’s given by the blood of patriotic heroes.
Why does the MLB hate Iowa so much? 13 of a 16 game stretch are blacked out or not available on MLB TV.
I just want to watch my favorite team cause me emotional damage in the land of corn.