Jim Hightower -- The Right-Wing Attack on Social Security is Un-American

Jim Hightower
August 29, 2024


Right-wing ideologues are mounting a three-pronged fraud trying to delegitimize Social Security, slash it's benefits, then -- zzzzzt -- kill it.

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While working stiffs pay this tax on every dollar they earn, millionaires and billionaires are taxed only on the first $170,000 of their astronomical pay.
Take Elon Musk, the richest man in America, who claimed a $45 billion paycheck last year.
But under current law he only pays Social Security taxes on $170,000 of that -- meaning 44 billion, 999 million, 830 thousand dollars of his income goes untaxed.
Why shouldn't he pay like everyone else?

Tax everyone equally -- the rich as well as the working class -- so everyone can have a secure, dignified retirement.
That's what the American concept of the Common Good means.

More:
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/the-right-wing-attack-on-social-security/