General Discussion

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1. Defund Social Security - starve it of funds with tax cuts, then scream it's going "bankrupt" to set the stage for its elimination or privatization.
2. Straight-out cuts, like raising the retirement age, reducing COLAs, and direct cuts to benefits or who can receive them, i.e., making them means-tested and then calling them "welfare" again to set the stage for elimination or privatization.

If they can't get away with #2, they'll do it via #1 and other ways they can find.

Like the ACA, they've been after Social Security & Medicare since their inception -- because the billionaires whom the GOP exclusively represents (and who own them and the highest court in the land via hundreds of dark money groups funneling money to the GOP and the courts thanks to Citizens United) - don't want to pay the taxes on those programs. That's what's driving this. The goddamned billionaires like Musk, Trump and others. Greedy assholes who wish to have the IRS defunded and shut down so they pay no tax (and many of them don't anyway - same with big corporations like Bank of America, Amazon, and others).

Billionaires and corporate greed are largely ignored in the body politic and surrounding discussions—especially by the media, which billionaires and big corporations primarily own—so they're not going to talk about their dirty shenanigans in public. They point at migrants, poor people, seniors, healthcare, and the sickest among us, brown people, etc., as the issue. THEY ARE NOT THE ISSUE. Billionaires and corporate greed are the issues. And because everything and everybody is owned and controlled by the same, it never gets discussed.