'A win by Walker would put the Senate—and Social Security's future—on a 50-50 knife's edge.'
FDR had insisted that it be an insurance benefit that workers earn by paying into it, through the"FICA" payroll tax deducted from every paycheck—6.2 percent of earnings, matched by 6.2 percent from their employer.
He saw the payroll tax as pivotal, giving workers"a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program.". There may be"a tiny splinter group" of politicians who want to mess with Social Security, he wrote, but"their number is negligible and they are stupid.
Well, stupid is on the upcoming runoff ballot in Georgia. Leading Republicans have proposed radical plans to end the guarantee of Social Security and Medicare. Florida US Senator Rick Scott, who leads Republican efforts to elect Walker, has proposed to sunset both programs after five years, in aUnder Scott's scheme, Social Security, Medicare, and the payroll tax would continue only if Congress could agree on how to renew them.
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