POG Politics Thread Version 3
Come on in! Since Dustin is taking his ball and going home, it's time to start a new politics thread.
LOL Filthy. Trending on Twitter is "Thank you Elon" for getting the Omnibus bill killed.
thank you Elon is trending on the company he owns and runs lol
just like trump, Elon can't show up in a big random crowd cuz he will be booed mercilessly just like he was at the chapel show.
or his SNL appearance
Hehe...
Dun dun dun... Before proposing socialized medicine, I suggest paying for the cost of Medicare.
did a whole stadium of Steeler fans really cheer for that monster? that makes me sad for humanity
LOL "a hero for humanity".
This has to be trolling.
social security is unfunded?
last I heard, it was liquid. and that's even with the 250k ceiling on income that is taxable for Medicare!!!
but that was a long time ago. maybe things have changed.
lol at 250k ceiling. paying 0 Medicare tax on any income over 250k.... oh, you make 100 billion a year? well we aren't going to tax on you 99.99975%... cuz yeah
Elon Musk is god damn awful
He's a private US citizen, with political power & an appointed position literally trying to topple governments globally
He's a full blown oligarch. Everything people hate about Soros he actually does.
He's threatening in the UK to fund the 3rd party anti immigration Reform. 1/3 of reforms elected representatives are convicted wife beaters.
He's naming the organisation he's in charge of after the crypto currency he's heavily invested in.....thats like archetypal corruption
he wields power like a child
petulant and autistic
ketamine is a hell of a drug
i'd do jury duty for Luigi mangione or whatever his name is
Elon is saving the planet while some people blind with jealousy are going kicking and screaming.
Enjoy the ride!
saving the planet one scam at a time
space x
AI
wealth inequality
sabotaging public transportation
tesla
trump
social security is unfunded?
last I heard, it was liquid. and that's even with the 250k ceiling on income that is taxable for Medicare!!!
but that was a long time ago. maybe things have changed.
lol at 250k ceiling. paying 0 Medicare tax on any income over 250k.... oh, you make 100 billion a year? well we aren't going to tax on you 99.99975%... cuz yeah
Not to be a nit (okay, fine, to be a nit), it's the Social Security part of the payroll tax that has the cap, not the Medicare part. You pay the Medicare portion on all payroll income, plus there are a couple additional Medicare taxes that hit high-income folks.
/filthyfactcheck
right... that graph said social security was unfunded. or did I read the graph wrong?
oh wait.. sorry I just saw I miss spoke in my post... I said cap on Medicare, and I meant social security... oops.
right... that graph said social security was unfunded. or did I read the graph wrong?
oh wait.. sorry I just saw I miss spoke in my post... I said cap on Medicare, and I meant social security... oops.
Right.
And no, you read that graph correctly. Neither Social Security nor Medicare is fully funded, i.e. there isn't enough money projected to come in to pay for all of the projected outgo in the future. Lots of reasons for that.
But when things are that underfunded it's a pretty good sign that there are going to be higher taxes, benefit cuts or both in our future.
