www.paulcraigroberts.org American communism has come home to roost
New York is not the only city in the United States that has a communist mayor. Seattle also has one, and little doubt there are many others.
I tend to regard all Democrats as communist, because all of them believe that justice consists of burdening working people with the food, housing, and medical needs of the nonworking. I am referring to welfare programs, such as SNAP benefits, subsidized and rent controlled housing, and medical care provided by taxes on employed peoples earnings. I am not speaking of Social Security and Medicare. Recipients of these benefits pay substantial taxes for all of their working life to be eligible for medical care and a small pension on their retirement. Social Security and Medicare are not welfare programs, they are insurance programs run by the government and financed over the working life of the beneficiaries.
When I was in the congressional staff, Senator Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, told me that Congress had promised the American people that Social Security benefits would never be taxed. When the Reagan tax rate reductions passed, David Stockman and Alan Greenspan in their hysteria preached that America would be destroyed by “the Reagan deficits” unless Social Security benefits were taxed.
I was no longer in the treasury to stop the insanity, and no one else thought it worthwhile to do so. Consequently beginning in 1984 50% of Americans’ Social Security payments were taxed if their retirement income exceeded certain thresholds. If memory serves the threshold was $25,000. Later the taxation of Social Security benefits was increased and 80% of the Social Security check was subject to income taxation at your tax rate.
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