And the outrages continue. Just in from Bernie Sanders’ office – the GOP just filibustered $250 checks for Social Security recipients:
The Senate today voted 53 to 45 for a proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to provide $250 payments to some 58 million Social Security recipients and disabled veterans, but the vote fell seven short of the 60 needed to overcome a Republican filibuster and advance the bill…
Without action by Congress, there will be no cost-of-living adjustments for retirees and the disabled for only the second time since 1975, when a law took effect linking benefits to inflation. The outdated formula for calculating living costs does not accurately take into account the budgets of senior citizens who spend a disproportionate amount on increasingly expensive health care and prescription drugs.
And so the slide to the bottom continues…
…that would add to the deficit, and we’re very, very serious about reducing the deficit.
until after the next congress meets.
Look at some of the possible incoming Republican house committee chairman.The Senate is tied up in procedural knots and the house is poised for grade A madness.
to see that it looks like dems rejected it. Wow!
They Gave Us A Republic…
I don’t concern myself with whether people buy yachts or reinvest their money or use it as toilet paper. The fact is it’s THEIR money.
Estates have already been taxed. The money that people leave their children is what’s left over after a lifetime of paying taxes. Capital gains money has already been taxed also. I support having automatic stabilizers and a safety net. I support people paying their fare share. But I cannot support the confiscatory double jeopardy that many of the commenters here do.