Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.
If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.
If this was a blind ballot and you only saw a campaign's backers, which side would you pick?
But this isn't a hypothetical.
On the left are Xavier Becerra's backers.
Tom Steyer's endorsements on the right.
This sounds nice, but it's a great way to undermine the welfare state.
The strongest welfare states in the world (the Nordics) tax everyone, including nurses. And they give everyone universal healthcare, childcare, pensions, education in return.
When the middle class has skin in the game, they defend the system. When welfare is 'just for the poor', it becomes a poor program: stigmatized, underfunded, easy to gut.
That's why billionaires keep pushing this idea. The real scandal isn't that this nurse pays $12k.
It's that Jeff Bezos pays $0.
This statement changes nothing.
The President has threatened a genocide against the Iranian people, and is continuing to leverage that threat.
He has launched a massive war of enormous risk and of catastrophic consequence without reason, rationale, nor Congressional authorization - which is as clear a violation of the Constitution as any. Each day this goes on, the risk and criminality of these actions escalate for our nation and the world.
Moreover, this administration’s self enrichment, insider trading, and pure corruption off this chaos - from crypto currencies to predictive trading markets to bribe “settlements” - has placed the Trump administration’s pursuit of personal wealth squarely against the wellbeing of our nation and its people.
All of these incidents, and plenty more, have clearly driven our country past the threshold for impeachment or invocation of the 25th amendment.
We cannot risk the world nor the wellbeing of our nation any longer. None of these considerations should be partisan, but shared in good faith by Americans of all backgrounds who care for the safety and stability of the United States.
Whether by his Cabinet or Congress, the President must be removed from office. We are playing with the brink.
Congress mandated that Bondi and her DOJ release the full Epstein Files. They refuse, and are breaking the law in hiding them.
Pedophile protectors shouldn’t be anywhere NEAR your vote records.
Another person was killed in ICE custody—adding to the highest death toll since the agency was created.
There's no reforming this.
We must abolish ICE, end qualified immunity for ICE agents, and ensure accountability.
JUST IN: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani confirms undocumented children will be included in the city’s universal daycare program.
NYC is choosing “kids first,” even when the politics get ugly.
You are defending the open killing of everyday Americans for exercising their Constitutional rights.
First, the mother of a 6 year old child. Now, an ICU nurse to veterans. Both shot at nearly point blank range.
All without reflection or remorse. People will not forget this.
I want to thank our courageous friends in Minnesota who — in below freezing temperatures — are standing up to ICE. The American people want democracy and justice, not authoritarianism. When we stand together we win.
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Democratic leaders say they're very angry that Trump is cutting taxes for billionaires...but Democratic leaders are also very angry that Mamdani is proposing to raise taxes on billionaires.
Do you see why polls show everyone is so angry at these people?
the gop is the most succesful force of terrorism on the planet. nothing comes close to the metric ton of violence it dishes out overseas and at the domestic level. it directly kills its own voter base with glee as long as it can get better returns for their capital masters
1. If you want hope in this dark moment, listen to chant of "no more war" that broke out among the thousands that came out to hear Bernie Sanders in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There is only one off-ramp from Trump's mad rush to war: the quick mobilization of an anti-war opposition. The people are ready.
UAW Region 6 members call for the immediate release of David Huerta, President of @seiucalifornia and @seiuusww, who was detained and injured during an ICE raid in Los Angeles while exercising his First Amendment right to peacefully observe.