Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 (@JessicaBRiedl)

Absolutely terrible. The biggest tax hike in decades, and 100% of the revenue would go to (often wealthy) retirees so that they can keep collecting more than they paid in. Oh, and it keeps Social Security out of deficit for just 4 years. What happened to the Republican party? <span class="quote-c...

Simply raising taxes to close Social Security's long-term annual shortfall (1.5% of GDP) is easy - as long as you don't care about saving any tax space to pay for Medicare's larger shortfall (3.5%), debt interest costs, or any other spending wishlist item that requires new taxes....