From www.boortz.com
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THIS WOULD BE A HUGE – HUGE CHANGE
When Owl Gore takes to the podium to address the nation tomorrow night you can be sure that he’s going to
say something about using our wonderful budget surplus to "shore up Social Security."
Someone needs to deliver the message to the American people that this is a HUGE change in the way
business is done in Washington. Not just a huge change, but a very dangerous change.
Let’s take this step-by-step.
First – how is Social Security funded now. One way – one source. Social Security taxes. ALL benefits are paid
from Social Security taxes. If the politicians want to raise benefits they have to find a way to control the costs
within the system. That could mean raising Social Security taxes, raising the eligibility age, or speeding up the
day that Social Security will run out of money.
OK – So Gore wants to use the budget surplus to shore up Social Security. The next step in our process of
understanding here is to figure out where the so-called budget surplus comes from. It comes from excess
income taxes collected from the American people, that’s where. Across the nation we have families where both
parents have to work to be able to both meet their families needs and to meet the demands of the IRS. That’s
where the surplus came from --- the incredible high rate of taxes being paid by American families --- more
particularly, those who are in the top 40 percent of income earners.
So … when Gore tells America that he wants to use the budget surplus to shore up Social Security he is telling
them that he wants to use income tax revenues to shore up the Social Security system. Income tax revenues.
Not Social Security Tax revenues --- income tax revenues.
This is a wholesale change in the way of doing business in Washington. Up to now Social Security has stood on
its own ….. now it’s going to be funded, to one extent or another, with income tax revenues?
Here is why the Democrats want to bring this about. Social Security has been one of the principal vote-buying
schemes of the Democratic Party for decades. No dummies, these Democrats. They know that the largest
identifiable voting group out there is America’s senior citizens … and they vote! And when they vote Social
Security is at the absolute TOP of their electoral agenda. Time after time we’ve seen benefit increases
proposed just before major national elections. In virtually EVERY election of the past 30 years --- usually at the
last minute --- Democrats have issued press releases with dire warnings of some evil Republican plot to "gut",
"slash", "cut", or "destroy" Social Security.
The Democrats, though, have faced one small roadblock in their quest to utilize Social Security as an effective
vote-buying program. Limited funds! The Democrats have been constrained to fitting all of their benefit
increases into the structure of the Social Security tax system! Raising Social Security taxes or setting back the
eligibility age to cover increased costs and benefits is a tricky tightrope to walk. If the Democrats could just fund
their Social Security promises from some source other than Social Security taxes --- more and bigger promises
could be made and more and more votes could be bought!
Well ---- here’s the solution! The budget surplus! Use the budget surplus! You can cast any effort to give these
surplus taxes back to the people who actually earned it as "welfare for the rich." Make the high-achievers look
evil and greedy for even suggesting that they should get some of their money back. Then … use that money to
buy more votes through Social Security!
More benefits? No problem! We’ll get the money through income taxes!
Expanded eligibility? No problem! All we have to do is keep the evil Republicans from lowering those income
tax rates on the rich and we’ll have the money to do whatever we want!
Think about it, folks. If the Democrats succeed with their plans to start funding Social Security with general tax
revenues – we’ll never see a tax cut. Never.
They’re working to take a good vote-buying scheme and turn it into a stupendous vote-buying scheme. Quite a
plan.
+++++++++++++++
THIS WOULD BE A HUGE – HUGE CHANGE
When Owl Gore takes to the podium to address the nation tomorrow night you can be sure that he’s going to
say something about using our wonderful budget surplus to "shore up Social Security."
Someone needs to deliver the message to the American people that this is a HUGE change in the way
business is done in Washington. Not just a huge change, but a very dangerous change.
Let’s take this step-by-step.
First – how is Social Security funded now. One way – one source. Social Security taxes. ALL benefits are paid
from Social Security taxes. If the politicians want to raise benefits they have to find a way to control the costs
within the system. That could mean raising Social Security taxes, raising the eligibility age, or speeding up the
day that Social Security will run out of money.
OK – So Gore wants to use the budget surplus to shore up Social Security. The next step in our process of
understanding here is to figure out where the so-called budget surplus comes from. It comes from excess
income taxes collected from the American people, that’s where. Across the nation we have families where both
parents have to work to be able to both meet their families needs and to meet the demands of the IRS. That’s
where the surplus came from --- the incredible high rate of taxes being paid by American families --- more
particularly, those who are in the top 40 percent of income earners.
So … when Gore tells America that he wants to use the budget surplus to shore up Social Security he is telling
them that he wants to use income tax revenues to shore up the Social Security system. Income tax revenues.
Not Social Security Tax revenues --- income tax revenues.
This is a wholesale change in the way of doing business in Washington. Up to now Social Security has stood on
its own ….. now it’s going to be funded, to one extent or another, with income tax revenues?
Here is why the Democrats want to bring this about. Social Security has been one of the principal vote-buying
schemes of the Democratic Party for decades. No dummies, these Democrats. They know that the largest
identifiable voting group out there is America’s senior citizens … and they vote! And when they vote Social
Security is at the absolute TOP of their electoral agenda. Time after time we’ve seen benefit increases
proposed just before major national elections. In virtually EVERY election of the past 30 years --- usually at the
last minute --- Democrats have issued press releases with dire warnings of some evil Republican plot to "gut",
"slash", "cut", or "destroy" Social Security.
The Democrats, though, have faced one small roadblock in their quest to utilize Social Security as an effective
vote-buying program. Limited funds! The Democrats have been constrained to fitting all of their benefit
increases into the structure of the Social Security tax system! Raising Social Security taxes or setting back the
eligibility age to cover increased costs and benefits is a tricky tightrope to walk. If the Democrats could just fund
their Social Security promises from some source other than Social Security taxes --- more and bigger promises
could be made and more and more votes could be bought!
Well ---- here’s the solution! The budget surplus! Use the budget surplus! You can cast any effort to give these
surplus taxes back to the people who actually earned it as "welfare for the rich." Make the high-achievers look
evil and greedy for even suggesting that they should get some of their money back. Then … use that money to
buy more votes through Social Security!
More benefits? No problem! We’ll get the money through income taxes!
Expanded eligibility? No problem! All we have to do is keep the evil Republicans from lowering those income
tax rates on the rich and we’ll have the money to do whatever we want!
Think about it, folks. If the Democrats succeed with their plans to start funding Social Security with general tax
revenues – we’ll never see a tax cut. Never.
They’re working to take a good vote-buying scheme and turn it into a stupendous vote-buying scheme. Quite a
plan.