Truthout/Democrats Hide When Asked About Ending High-Income Loophole to Assure Social Security's Fut

[markpkessinger]

Fucking cowards.

[font size=4]Democrats Hide When Asked About Ending High-Income Loophole to Assure Social Security's Future [/font]

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Public support for elimination of the payroll tax cap is high. According to a National Academy of Social Insurance Survey conducted in 2012, 68 percent of Americans favor eliminating the cap.

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Nevertheless, these routes to ensuring the promises made to workers that they could rely Social Security benefits are kept is little discussed on Capitol Hill. And even though the national Democratic Party has presented itself as the defender of Social Security, Remapping Debate discovered a profound unwillingness among most Democratic senators to identify their position on the issue.

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For the majority of Senators, when we left a message for the appropriate press person, that representative never replied. For example, we reached out to Senator Patty Murray’s (D-Wash.) office six times, but no one got back to us. We left the press secretary for Senator Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) five voicemails with no response. We then tried Donnelly’s communications director through voicemail and email and did not receive a reply. We tried Senator Maria Cantwell’s (D-Wash.) press office a total of eight times, and left voicemails for her communications director and deputy communications director, but neither returned our calls or emails.

Remapping Debate also never heard back from the press offices of Senators Max Baucus (D-Mont), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), William Cowan (D-Mass.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Tim Johnson (D-S.D.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Christopher Murphy (D-Conn), Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), and Tom Udall (D-N.M.).

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[4dsc]

1. I'll say it again, weak leadership

I need not say anything more.

[cantbeserious]

2. Blue Dogs Rule The Day

eom

[customerserviceguy]

3. The money's just not there

I posted on it yesterday.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2672981

[HiPointDem]

4. if you want to destroy social security, removing the cap is a great way to do it.

not to mention giving the government even *more* cash to borrow to finance their wars.

[Demeter]

5. What do you expect from DINOs?

Stabenow annoys me no end. She's barely tolerable when she's on the progressive side of an issue. Unfortunately, Michigan's political seedbeds are remarkably infertile. Unless you drink a lot of tea laced with Koolaide...

[bemildred]

6. They don't want to fix it, they want to gut it.

But they are not honest enough to admit it, so we get all this dissembling and bullshit.