…rather than increase the retirement age for Social Security.
Somebody just asked them. See Question 11:
Would you rather have people pay social security taxes on salaries above $106,800, or would you rather see benefits cut and the retirement age increased to age 69?
Self-identified tea party members:*
67%: Raise taxes
20%: Cut benefits, raise retirement age
Every other demographic slice agrees with them. But more so.
Which raises the question: why have we had leaders for three decades who are ideologically incompatible with the wishes of the American people, as the people have expressed those wishes, resoundingly, over the last three-quarters of a century?
* “Q13: Do you consider yourself to be a member of the Tea Party?”
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. . . why have we had leaders for three decades who are ideologically incompatible with the wishes of the American people . . .?
Oh, that one’s easy. Democracy has failed – utterly – and we now have Government of the Multinational Corporations, by the Hedge Funds, for Big Finance. (Though I might ave those out of order.)
Money!
WASF,
JzB