General Discussion

Only 75 Republicans in the House voted against repeal. The rest LISTENED to their constituents. This took many years of lobbying to get to this point. Usually one person obstructed, whether it was Orrin Hatch or somebody on the House Ways and Means Committee.

The "Social Security will be insolvent" mantra has always been a right-wing lie from the early 1980s, peddled by Koch-financed "libertarian" organizations like the Cato Institute. It was always about ideology with these crackpots. They wanted to create resentment and generational warfare while at the same time the REAL motive was the billionaires and businesses not wanting to pay their share of FICA taxes. Furthermore, no federal program can "go broke" since the federal government prints the money. Any bookkeeping "shortfall" can easily be remedied by paying it out of the general fund. This is why there has never been any big push to "fix" Social Security in recent decades. There is no need to.