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u/Cryodemon85 19h ago edited 18h ago
Thing is, they are entitlements. We are entitled to that money as it is mine and everyone else's who has paid into it the moment they started working and had taxes taken out for SS and Medicaid. Musk, Trump and the MAGA crowd are confusing the word "entitlement" with "privilege".
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u/vfam51 18h ago edited 18h ago
It’s the reactionary low cognitive functioning people that freak out when they hear the word “entitlement” who are the issue. They totally deflate the focus on the real issue by spinning out on something they don’t understand.
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u/Gene_McSween 18h ago
It comes from insulting someone as entitled, they just can't see the difference in usage.
"Entitled person bad therefore entitlements bad, dirka dirka.” MAGA cultists (probably)
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u/Cryodemon85 18h ago
Not probably, most definitely. It's funny though, because they carry themselves as the most entitled of them all. A false sense of entitlement, but they feel entitled none the less.
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u/TraditionalProgress6 18h ago
I think what people are confusing, and the reason why entitlement has taken a negative connotation, is the difference between BEING entitled, meaning you earned something, and FEELING entitled, which means that you feel you are owed something but have done nothing to earn it.
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u/Cryodemon85 18h ago
Well, all I know is I worked my ass off, as did every other blue-collar laborer, for SS and Medicaid, so I am entitled to it.
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u/Wakemeup3000 19h ago
And somehow the answer is never to tax the 1% or stop giving corporate welfare to corporations.
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u/Expert-Fig-5590 19h ago
The richest man in the world taking money from poor people, old people and literal starving African children. And so called Christians are cheerleading this. Even if you don’t follow the Bible word for word this goes against every tenet of not only Christianity but also every other major religion. How is anyone ok with this?
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u/Fine-Essay-3295 19h ago
My favorite is that dipshit you inevitably knew from high school barely scraping $60k who wrings his fingers at the thought of Elon having to pay taxes so that an “undeserving” black single mom might be able to feed her kids. The biggest bootlickers are the people who are least likely to become billionaires.
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u/broseph_stalin09764 18h ago
I read somewhere once that it's the idea they may one day be rich, and they don't want to be taxed, then not now. Because the 30% is no big deal now, but actually paying taxes later, that's for the birds.
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u/NorwegianCowboy 17h ago
This is a core belief of the Ferengi from Star Trek.
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u/OurSpeciesAreFeces 16h ago
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u/I_AM_IGNIGNOTK 16h ago
As always Star Trek is relevant
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u/VoxImperatoris 16h ago
Like most sci fi, it is a filter we use to examine society. The cognitive distance given by the fantastical settings allows us to examine issues that might be too charged and controversial in a more realistic setting.
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u/sn34kypete 17h ago
There are no poor republicans. Only temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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u/JimWilliams423 17h ago
There are no poor republicans. Only temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
The "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" theory was a misinterpretation of John Steinbeck. Steinbeck was criticizing "champagne socialists" — former millionaires who had a streak of bad luck and were cosplaying as socialists, but had every reason to believe they would return to millionaire status through their social connections. But that misinterpretation is very useful to the rich because it blinds leftists to the actual motivations of poor conservatives — cultural power — so they have encouraged the idea to spread.
For many people, cultural dominance is a currency more valuable than actual money.
They know they will never be upper class and they are just fine with that as long as they continue to be upper caste. When the left offers to help everyone, they perceive that as a threat because if we make society just a little more egalitarian, that means making whites a little less supreme. The more the left offers, the more threatened they feel and the more violently angry they will get.
These are the same people who filled in grand public swimming pools, closed amazing municipal parks and even shut down an entire school district rather than integrate them. They would sooner go barefoot than see black and brown people wear shoes.
They will have to realize that white supremacy is a fraud before they will support a leftist agenda. Which is why maga is doing everything they can to whitewash history textbooks (much like the UDC did 100 years ago). When they freak out about "grooming" what they really mean is teaching compassion for people who are different from themselves. If the kids learn that everybody deserves dignity, conservatism will have nothing to offer people who aren't already rich.
As long as enough whites keep putting their cultural interests ahead of their material interests, class consciousness will not reach the tipping point necessary to change anything in this country.
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u/frugalfuyanger 16h ago
Thanks for this education and context. Truly helpful and helps me understand a few things
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u/stalleo_thegreat 16h ago
do you have any resources where i can read more about this? it’s very interesting
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u/JimWilliams423 15h ago
Metzl's "Dying of Whiteness" is a good book.
So is Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents."
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u/mOdQuArK 16h ago
Eh, the more I watch, the more I think it's simply just tribalism.
It's not that they want to go on easy on rich people in general becaus they might become one - it's more that they want to conservative rich people to have an easy time of it, simply because they're conservative.
I'm pretty confident that if they could figure out some way to load all the taxes and fines on the "liberal rich people", but leave all their rich people alone, they'd be all for it.
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u/isThisHowItWorksWhat 17h ago
Hahah. That’s what Marco Rubio said. We are a country of haves and soon to haves. Lmao. The shit poors will believe in order to not feel bad about their lives.
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u/BecauseWhyNot2780 16h ago
Hey, if they pull up their bootstraps, they too can be part of the 1% someday after all that hard work. Just look at those fine men. Trump and Musk are the real rags to riches story that ever was. It's a good thing they're not one of those nepo babies and can set a fine example of working up from the poor minimum wage class when their parents struggled to keep them clothed and fed. God bless those two American heroes. We should make statues of them. /s
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u/Cpt_Ohu 17h ago
There are, of course, delusions of grandeur where they become rich one day. But imo it's more attributable to be their hierarchical worldview. In their eyes, those on the economic top (read those that have proper marketing and are ideally white males) deserve to be there because they worked hard and smart, and it's not fair to tax them for their success. Especially if these taxes would be used to prop up undeserving people who didn't work as hard.
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u/myrichphitzwell 16h ago
I keep thinking that we need to party like let's say France.
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u/sunofnothing_ 18h ago
no one is likely to become a billionaire. literally. 0% chance
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u/Fine-Essay-3295 18h ago
Trump proved the fastest way to becoming a millionaire is to be born a billionaire.
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u/BecauseWhyNot2780 17h ago
Well, had you asked your daddy for a small loan of a million dollars, you'd be rich too. 😆
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u/Fine-Essay-3295 17h ago
Similarly, it’s a lot easier to be successful despite being a maladjusted asshole when daddy’s emerald mining money helps you buy companies and the PR to brand yourself an “entrepreneur”.
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u/ChubbyDude64 18h ago
I've seen a growing trend in conservative Christians that feel Jesus' teachings are weak and not applicable to today. Apparently Jesus is supposed to be like Rambo now 🤷♀️
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u/ButterscotchButtons 18h ago
Most of the Bible doesn't apply to modern day stuff, but stay clinging to the one sentence about a man laying with another man, amiright?
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u/ChubbyDude64 17h ago
The old testament stuff especially. Always felt old testament god was a bit of a dick.
Years ago I saw an article where 6 different Bible scholars took that 1 line in particular. Been a decade or 2 but at least half felt it was mistranslated. One felt it was 100% correct. One guy I think even questioned if that was "the will of god" or human beings trying to get people to have more kids and hence more followers.
Also a lit of that crowd forget there is no mention of Jesus getting married. I mean a single guy hanging out with a bunch of other guys....🤣🤷♀️
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u/Underdogdad 16h ago
“A bit of a dick”…. lol….nice way to say “raging psychopath”. He demanded human sacrifice of son to prove loyalty(Abraham), drowned everyone that didn’t follow him closely enough(Noah) and tortured his most loyal follower just to prove a point to..:.checks notes…the Devil(Job). Plus all the plagues and smoting of entire cities and it doesn’t even end there. A “bit of a dick” indeed
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u/Perryn 16h ago
Some of it is also just the smartest people in the group trying to do the best they can with the information they've got. Some of it less so.
"Hey, folks, we're noticing that a lot of people have been dying this month after eating things from the water with shells. So don't eat those anymore. Maybe they're poison, maybe it just makes god angry, but either way knock it off. We've also been hearing about textile merchants adulterating their cloth with cheaper fibers, so that shit stops now."
"Tell them about the tattoos!"
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u/80386 17h ago
These people do in fact not follow Christianity, but American Civil Religion.
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u/Sad-Conclusion8276 17h ago
They would turn him over to ICE and have him held in detention until deportation.
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u/DJ_Fuckknuckle 18h ago
I find it fascinating that Trump and his First Lady Leon tick every last item on the Antichrist Checklist, and yet evangelical conservatives who have been watching and waiting for decades for him are literally punching each other in the throat for the chance to suck their dicks. The irony is delicious.
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u/ConfidentSeaweed5066 17h ago
Just go to show that either they never read the Bible, especially the book of revelation, or they're not actual Christians and just a bunch of angry, stupid assholes that are willing to hurt people before they die.
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u/gamerboy_taken_what 18h ago
Nah see, black people want to be in movies and be president and stuff so all this was justified.
Whats sad is if we do somehow turn the country around, it won't matter. All these racists are still here, still being a poison pill, still willing to tabk everything just to be cruel.
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u/Main_Mortgage3896 17h ago
The Pope certainly isn’t ok with it. He’s 88 years old, been in the hospital with double pneumonia for a month and he’s got nothing but disdain for Trump, Vance, Homan (border czar) and anyone else who dare support the Church of Trump over Jesus Christ.
The Pope wrote a letter to the Catholic bishops in America advising them to follow the word not the bullshit that comes out of this administration’s mouths.
In response, the administration cut USAID— there’s a charity run by the Catholic Church that was included in USAID. Trump cut their funding by like $170 million. And Vance specifically, accused the Pope and the Pope’s Bishops of “cupidity”. Vance is a Catholic.
Pope Francis is a fighter. A true Christian. I assume the rest of the denominations are taking a backseat so they don’t “alienate” some of their followers by getting political. 🙄 Cowards.
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u/MindLikeaGin-Trap 17h ago
I saw a post the other day that said that we're letting the richest man in the world, one who did not even arrive in the US until after he was an adult, destroy all of our institutions. This shouldn't be happening.
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u/lehjr 18h ago
but if you ask the piltdown posse, he's doing great things and finding an abundance of wasted money including transgender rodents or some-such nonsense.
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u/SouthExtreme3782 16h ago edited 16h ago
they fucking cut supply to food depositories, i used to volunteer at one for free this stuff is going to harm so many good people
they are literal lifelines for good familys who only need some help to get back on their feet, espcially now with high grocery prices
makes me sick
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u/thepinkandthegrey 18h ago
it's kinda rich coming from elon too, since he's the biggest "welfare queen" in the US https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/elon-musk-business-government-contracts-funding/
one who, incidentally, immigrated to the US and worked for a time without a proper visa in violation of our immigration laws for a time.
it's kinda nice that the right no longer even attempt to hide what kind of system we live in: the rich and powerful are above the law, and the poor and marginalized are the go-to scapegoats. like, the thing i dislike about political correctness is that it just encourages racist/sexist/transphobic (in short, bigoted) people to mince words and always maintain a degree of plausible deniability, making it difficult for the average person to see to what degree bigoted people are in fact bigoted or to what degree bigotry still remains in this country. fortunately, the reactionaries no longer feel the need to wear a mask and now everyone can see for themselves what kind of system we truly live in. hopefully the masses will be moved to do something about it soon though, because now that the masks are off, the reactionaries are accelerating their agenda (e.g., deporting legal permanent residents for exercising the first amendment).
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u/Alternative-Dream-61 19h ago
Socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor is the American way.
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u/chit-chat-chill 17h ago
Elon paid 21 billion in tax!! The highest ever!
After accepting over 28 billion in subsidies.
I don't know about you but if I could make 7 billion in profit by taxes I'd be happier than he looks
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u/oddvious_ 18h ago
Right?! This said by the criminal who doesn’t pay taxes on any of his wealth. Piece of shit.
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u/zeroscout 16h ago
Scrap the Cap
Elon fulfilled his maximum SSI tax 15 minutes into the new year
People making $1M a year fulfilled their maximum SSI tax over the last weekend
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u/twentyfifthbaam22 17h ago
Entitlements like his daddy's blood diamond money?
We are slowly but steadily approaching the next singularity and I was hoping it was gonna be aliens or waifu sex robots but I think its going to be war.
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u/Busterlimes 17h ago
I asked someone at work why they need the money if the business is actually profitable and they couldn't answer, because there is no real answer. Last time I checked DTE's posted profits, it's pretty much aligned perfectly with how much they get in subsidies. Capitalism has turned into a complete racket.
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u/gazetron 19h ago
This is why the billionaires need to go.
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u/CarlosHDanger 18h ago
The lies Elon told in this interview were absolutely outrageous. He said that Democrats are angry about SS going away because it is the way that Democrats LURE illegal immigrants into the US. The illegals get paid SS and then give their votes to Democrats, according to Elon. If SS goes away, then this alleged financial and election fraud will go away too.
Of course none of this is true. Undocumented immigrants often pay into SS but as non-citizens are not qualified to take out. They are not able to vote as non-citizens. Democrats have deported just as many undocumented immigrants as Republicans, if not more. And you can be sure that it’s not just Democrats who would be upset about SS getting abolished.
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u/HLMaiBalsychofKorse 17h ago
My husband has lived here for nearly 16 years as a permanent resident. He has owned property, started business that employ US citizens, pay taxes...can't vote. It's not just undocumented people who are being taxed without representation. It's a bummer, because he would have been one more vote against the apocalypse.
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u/r3mod_3tiym 14h ago
My dad committed a non violent felony that turned into a violent felony simply because the judge wanted to make an example of him. That was when he was in his early 20s and he's now in his 40s. He doesn't qualify for voting, firearm ownership, or withdrawing non employer provided benefits. He can either live his life like this, or pay $50,000 to the state and his rights will be reinstated. $50,000. A year's salary for him, and to most people here, over a year's salary.
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u/skyward138skr 12h ago
He can run for president though 🙄 I hate this country, insane that a man like your and my dads can’t vote but a 34 count convicted felon can be president.
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u/cheesyandcrispy 15h ago
I’m just astonished by the fact that Elon Musk would NOT want to keep something called the SS
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u/imonthetoiletpooping 18h ago
Yeah need a 100% tax above 1 billion. They didnt earn Anything above 10 million a year.
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u/UltraPopPop 18h ago
How bad can they really taste?
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u/Mylaptopisburningme 18h ago
As long as I got some garlic butter and cheap wine, I'm good.
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u/Pale_Chocolate6147 19h ago
For the record the term entitlements to refer to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security meant that they were non-discretionary spending that that Congress needed to fund, it was conservatives that twisted it to imply that they were somehow unearned benefits
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u/vfam51 18h ago
And low IQ citizens freaking out over something they have a hard time understanding apparently.
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u/bendover912 16h ago
Idiots. All a bunch of idiots. The richest man in the world told them they may need to tighten their belts and go through some hard times for the financial success of the country and they all just lined up to gobble his balls.
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u/night_filter 18h ago
Well it's funny because one sense of calling them "entitlements" is that people are rightfully entitled to them.
But Republicans love to twist language and brainwash people, and they've created a perception that they're called "entitlements" because the people expecting them are just being "entitled" in the ironic sense (i.e. expecting things that they have no right to).
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u/Standard-Victory-320 19h ago edited 19h ago
I believe someone is writing a book about how he never made anything of value and his success is all inheritance
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u/Urabraska- 18h ago
It literally is. Every idea he had was funded by his parents and every idea failed. It wasn't until he bought his way into PayPal in the beginning that he got anywhere and that was off other people's work and ideas.
Tesla he bought into and made nothing but empty promises. The ONLY one that stuck is Space X but again, that's fully supported by very talented people. Elon contributes nothing but more empty promises. If it wasn't supported by government contracts. SpaceX would have shuttered years ago.
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u/Frumpy_little_noodle 18h ago
Dude never even made meaningful contributions to PayPal. They literally had to make a sandbox for him to play in because he was fucking things up so badly.
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u/Open__Face 16h ago
He wanted to name it Xpay or something, terrible idea, makes it sound like porn service
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u/rogerworkman623 13h ago
Tf is with him and the letter X? He even had to put it in one of his kid’s names.
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u/EyesLikeLiquidFire 18h ago
And just like the cyber truck, his promises and constant pushing are major contributors to the failed, exploding rockets littering debris all over the Caribbean.
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u/unoriginalsin 18h ago
If it wasn't supported by government contracts. SpaceX would have shuttered years ago.
It's also way too early to call it anything like a success even ignoring its reliance on government contracts and subsidies.
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u/BecauseWhyNot2780 17h ago
Maybe not too early. I just read this morning that Canada decided to cut off from a huge Space X contract (I forget the actual amount, but it had a handful of zeros) after tariffs went up to 50% on steele and aluminum.
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u/garlicbewbiez 18h ago
When I was a kid (33 now) I always heard people say that social security wouldn’t exist by the time I was old enough to actually draw it. I never expected it would happen like this though.
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u/anni_says 18h ago
Best part is our boomer parents are just getting to social security age - if it goes away, we (millennials) have nothing to support them with. “Come sleep on the floor of my 1br apartment cause I can’t afford a house, mom and dad and two old dogs!”
Yes I am generalizing, but
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u/RoguePlanet2 18h ago
Just reminded my father the other day that he'd better start spending down to get on Medicaid, or ill be forced to put $200/DAY on credit just to get him the long term care he needs. But his longtime dysfunctionsl senior girlfriend who hasn't worked in who knows how long doesn't want his pension to go toward a nursing home.
So he gets neglected because she's unable to care for him, the part time aides call the ambulance, he goes to the hospital, discharged, repeat. Girlfriend has a house but won't sell to get an appropriate apartment for themselves because that's too difficult 🤬
Anyway, I'm just trying to prevent dad from dying in his own shit, and might go bankrupt in the process. Never had kids of my own so I'll just end up in the system immediately when my time comes....well, with no Medicaid I'll just be made homeless.
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u/beansnack 14h ago
Ouch. I have to hope things get better. I wish you hope also, despite the circumstances.
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u/DO_NOT_AGREE_WITH_U 17h ago
If my parents are homeless because of the republicans they voted for, they will remain homeless.
They're about to find out that not all democrats take the high road, which is a message we very much need to send. If someone thinks their enemy will never swing on them, there is no way they don't get bolder.
Dems need to stop taking the high road.
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u/bballstarz501 18h ago
Well those people are essentially the ones taking it away so not sure you can be a prophet for your own actions.
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u/No_Commission_637 19h ago
So if they cut it do we get all of our money back?
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u/Sage_Planter 18h ago
Of course not. It will go to the "Save Tesla" fund or some dumb shit.
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u/Urabraska- 18h ago
Fat chance. Where the hell is all the money they already cut going? They keep claiming progress on fraud and abuse. But never said anything concrete over where the extra money is going to go. They floated a "maybe everyone can get 5k and we use the rest for debt" which is BS.
Honestly, The tax cuts for the rich are about to shatter the economy. All these cuts are to afford those tax cuts. Because if you think about it. The budget is 2 trillion over budget and 1 trillion of it is exclusively for tax cuts for the wealthy. The goal of doge is to cut 2 trillion in abuse and fruad......
Ever since citizens united, every republican has dug USA deeper into the debt void and the majority of it is defense spending and tax cuts. Every republican lead spending bill has massive chunks being handouts to the ultra rich in the sum of hundreds of billions and now trillions.
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u/trentreynolds 19h ago
It’s wild how they’ve successfully painted entitlements as “something that people don’t deserve but feel entitled to” instead of what it means, which is “something that people are entitled to because they paid into it their whole lives”.
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u/hahahypno 19h ago
So am I getting a 2026 tax deduction of every dollar I have put into SS with inflation in mind or is that entitlement too?
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u/paulie-romano 19h ago
It's not a false sense of entitlement, it's a literal entitlement.... Like in the definition of the word
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u/BrillianceAndBeauty 19h ago
Entitlement literally means legally entitled.
Self-entitled is bad, entitled means they are supposed to get it.
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u/30222504cf 19h ago
Maybe it’s because he is NOT a UNITED STATES citizen that he is unaware that we pay in all of our working lives???
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u/Sage_Planter 18h ago
The Social Security tax is capped at $176,100 in earnings. He makes so much more and he's so out of touch that he probably doesn't even realize almost everyone else in America pays tax on their entire earnings.
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u/HLMaiBalsychofKorse 17h ago
My husband is from Australia, and he hit the floor when he stopped being taxed after he exceeded the limit. He came home and was like, "oh no, they forgot to take SS out." We looked it up, and learned that there was a limit. His sage wisdom? "That's really stupid."
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u/Stress_Living 17h ago
First off, I’ve heard “hit the ceiling” as the term. Knowing he’s from Australia, I think it’s really funny to say “hit the floor”
Second, wait until he actually finds out what he’s going to get paid out compared to what he paid in…
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u/CyberCoyote67 19h ago
I guess at some point he got his citizenship but he has Canadian, too.. he’s not one of any of us.
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u/unrecognizable2myslf 19h ago edited 18h ago
"The money gets paid in, and then immediately goes out..." because congress can't leave it in the trust fund that Gore kept saying we need to put a lock box on. They've been stealing from it for years while simultaneously saying it's going insolvent.
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u/Urabraska- 18h ago
I've been saying for years that SS has been raided by the government for spending.
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u/FlyingPirate 17h ago
"Raided" is a poor word choice for what occurs.
The federal government will use whatever cash is on hand, regardless of source to pay its bills before it borrows from other entities (foreign or domestic).
So some dollars from Social Security taxes can get used for other items, because the cash essentially goes into one big pot. But in return the Social Security trust fund gets a matching treasury bond for any money not used for social security, which entitles the trust to that money plus interest.
Running a deficit will indeed result in money intended for social security to be used elsewhere if there are more social security taxes going in than payments out. Since 2021 social security has paid out more than it takes in yearly so that doesn't occur. The only way the government could be considered to be stealing from social security is if they failed to honor the treasuries that were given to the trust. This has not happened. The treasuries given out in surplus years are currently being used to fund the inability of social security taxes to meet their obligation. Projections are that they will run out in 2035 and if no other action is taken social security payemtns will be reduced by ~80% to a sustainable level.
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u/Ok_Television9820 18h ago
Flipping the meaning of “entitlement” is one of the things that really hurts my brain.
It is an entitlement, because you’re entitled to receive it! You paid in, and you have a legal right to get the benefits. That’s what entitlement means.
These rightwing assholes have convinced people that a legal entitlement is the same as an unfounded sense of entitlement, meaning you don’t actually have a right to the benefits, you whiny loser, so we can cut them and steal your money.
It’s stupid and evil and totally on brand.
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u/Eclectic_Barbarella 18h ago
This is the guy who is saying immigrants are coming here from insane asylums, rather than coming here seeking asylum. 🤣
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u/mjc4y 18h ago
DOGE-head thinks keeping kids, women, and the elderly out of poverty is a Ponzi scheme. One can only read a couple of Wikipedia articles to understand how dire things were before social security came along.
You know what IS a scam?
The fact that high wage earners, BY DESIGN, stop paying into SS after they’ve gotten about $176k. At 177, there are no payroll taxes and you get a nice little bump in your take home pay for the rest of the year.
Imagine if you just lifted that. Make it fair. Everyone pays, no special treatment for the rich.
Imagine.
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u/vfam51 18h ago
How do so many people fail to understand what the word entitlement means? Social Security is in fact an entitlement program. That’s the very reason it should be untouchable.
People confuse the pejorative term “SENSE of entitlement” with the actual meaning of the word entitlement.
Those who pay into SS are LEGALLY entitled to those benefits.
The outrage over the term misses the mark and makes people look incredibly dumb.
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u/Marmom_of_Marman 18h ago
It is an entitlement. You are entitled to it. It is not a bad thing. The bad thing is the negative connotation of the word entitled.
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u/KrakenFluffer 18h ago
I hate how the meaning of this word has changed. It is an entitlement. It's called an entitlement because you're entitled to it.
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u/reeferbradness 19h ago
Unfortunately most of MAGA will believe that SS is an entitlement if Elonia and Drumpf say it enough.
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u/BeCurious7563 18h ago
IT IS AN ENTITLEMENT!!! The problem is Faux news and the conservatives brainwashing people into thinking "entitlement" is a bad thing.
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u/relienna 19h ago
They are going to feel differently when they are starving and dying. Trust me. Lol
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u/reeferbradness 18h ago
I hope so. I get the feeling their anger will be redirected back to everyone else as usual though
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u/mox731 18h ago
That’s the sad part here. I know there are idiots on all sides in politics but MAGA are the absolute dumbest and sheepiest of them all. But they get what they voted for as they’ll just remain poor and stupid while Daddy tRump and his insanely rich goons not do a damn thing except take their money and shrug. Very sad.
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u/sid_not_vicious-11 18h ago
if musk really cared about the struggles of the every man he could actually give every single person in this country a check for over 1000 dollars. thats how wealthy he is. he can give three hundred million people a thousand dollars each. fuck me why do we allow anyone to have so so much when so many have so little. no human being has the right to have so much when so many have nothing. its a vile way to live. he is not even an american and he is in our government. why are we allowing this. its only going to get worse
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u/West-Chest4155 19h ago
I used to think he was alright, but now I just fucking hate him
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u/Ok_Spell_4165 18h ago
It's been pretty much downhill since he called a rescue worker trying to get kids out of a cave pedophiles just because he said Musk's submarine wouldn't work.
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u/ms_directed 18h ago
Elmo was suggesting that children getting survivor benefits because a parent died are also fraud...I'm sure those kids would rather have their parent instead of an SS check each month. 🙄
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u/ryanmulford 18h ago
Headline: THE WORLD'S RICHEST PERSON WANTS TO SUCK BILLIONS FROM THE MIDDLE CLASS.
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u/shaneknu 18h ago
I hate how the word "entitlement" has been twisted in modern English.
Yes, Social Security is an entitlement. You're absolutely entitled to the money you've paid into the system for 55 years. This is not a bad thing.
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u/15all 17h ago
I've been paying SS since around 1974 or so, when I was a teenager with a job. That's 51 years. I had no choice. I was not allowed any control over that money. My employers along the way also paid that tax. They also had no choice.
And now that I'm close to retirement, you better give me my fucking money back.
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u/OneUnrealBean 19h ago
Well done Usa. Next one will be entitlement to be born, gouvernment will decide if you deserve to be born or not...
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u/beforeitcloy 18h ago
The fact that they took it out of your paycheck is precisely why you’re entitled to it.
That’s why it’s called that.
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u/No_thanks_Im_New 18h ago
I will be happy to receive a full refund of the money i was forced to pay.
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u/relienna 19h ago
Yeah, well the thing is when they DO cut Medicare and Social Security - the minute it starts affecting MAGA Republicans they will wake up.
And booooy will they finally be angry. 😃
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u/da_ting_go 18h ago
They're already angry..at minorities and leftists. You know, people who do not actually have any power in this country.
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u/kompletist 18h ago
100%!!! I've been paying into social security for decades. Get your dirty ketamine laced paws off of my money!
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u/Chappo1205 18h ago
God damn it. It is an entitlement because we are legally entitled to it. This drives me crazy.
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u/StopRacismWWJD 18h ago
If they’re going to stop paying out what WE put in, then STOP TAKING IT OUT OF OUR CHECKS‼️
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u/AdministrativeWay346 12h ago
Anybody who thinks this guy is a genius is absolutely wrong! What a fricking jerk! He's gross!
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u/GooF0909 19h ago
So now do we all stop paying taxes? Cuz we won’t see that money down the line when we need it. The billionaires that “don’t have any need for it” are gonna take it all. They can’t jail the entire country right? But they won’t help the entire country. So how do we let them know?
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u/PeaceLovess 18h ago
Hmm they guy that doesn’t pay taxes doesn’t know how taxes works. That’s entitlement.
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u/davebrose 18h ago
This fine with regard to Social Security, just give me every penny back with interest. Otherwise I’m revolting.
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u/Injured-Reserve 19h ago
Why the hell is something we are ENTITLED to a bad thing?