Tag: social security

Civil unrest, an unmitigated pandemic, white supremacist fascists marching in the streets, an ailing economy, worsening income inequality, lies, and voter suppression. This is Donald...

Who doesn't want to pay lower taxes? Of all the concerns voters have, the amount they pay in taxes seems to be the most prevalent...

Republicans have been laser focused on destroying Social Security since President Franklin Roosevelt signed it into law in 1935. Over the past eight decades, Republicans--and...

Do you know any Republicans who shouldn't be Republicans? That is, those who aren't wealthy, rely on the same fire departments, police departments, food and...

Some have argued that First Daughter Ivanka Trump is her father's Jiminy Cricket. She is credited with mollifying her father's notoriously volatile temper, and convincing...

If perhaps you were worried that Republicans, having blown a $1.5 trillion hole in the national debt, would now be looking to cut social safety...

Now that House Speaker Paul Ryan and his GOP minions have managed to pass a giant tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, they're halfway...

Talk about splitting hairs. The White House has just released (hours after it was already leaked) its proposed budget for the next fiscal year. We...

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said in a recent interview that he's not ruling out Medicare privatization. A frequent opponent of The Affordable...

President Obama was a great president for the poor. As The Atlantic notes, there were three main moves he made to reduce income inequality: ...

Social Security has been called the third rail of American politics: Touch it and you die. And if that is indeed the case, then...

It's a big day today! Obama plans to forgive $7.7 billion worth of student loans from people with severe disabilities. People with disabilities are already...

For many older Americans, the term "socialist," conjures images of Soviet Russia. They think of a Marxist state, civil wars, Soviet wars, and Stalin. This...

The politicians who populate Congress are known, more often than not, as stale squabblers holding stalemates above any real attempt at legislative progress. That said,...

// // Alecia Faith Pennington seems to be the victim of a crime most of us probably didn't know was a crime: her identity...

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Luke 3:17?He will separate chaff from grain, and burn up the chaff with eternal fire and store away the grain. Bill and Hillary Clinton declared...

What does Social Security have to do with the national debt or the annual budget? Just ask Bernie Sanders; nothing at all, he'll confirm. But...

All Republicans are alike. But each Republican is crazy in their own way. Democrats protect the poor and the environment. They believe humans are heating...