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area51

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7. The goalpost of retirement age already was moved during the Reagan administration;

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Fri Sep 19, 2025, 11:13 PM

Sep 19

it shouldn't be allowed, especially since the income cap remains in place, and especially in a country w/o universal healthcare, making it hard to survive to the age when you can collect benefits.

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Outrage after Trump 'crony' lets the 'cat out of the bag' on Social Security [View all] turbinetree Sep 19 OP

Maybe we shouldn't have bashed Obama mercilessly when he tried to do something about Social Security. Silent Type Sep 19 #1

"protect and preserve" translation: "stop paying out" usonian Sep 19 #2

As long as we don't take more pennies from the billionaires. Buddyzbuddy Sep 19 #3

Billionaires should be paying in John Farmer Sep 20 #12

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Commissioner Frank Bisignano, who never knew there was a SS Commissioner, or what he did. Grins Sep 19 #6

The goalpost of retirement age already was moved during the Reagan administration; area51 Sep 19 #7

K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Sep 19 #8

"the generations that are coming in will probably have a difference set of rules than we had." Mblaze Sep 19 #9

Increase the wage/salary cap duhneece Sep 19 #10

They all want to talk about 'saving' Social Security by wrecking it... Scalded Nun Sep 19 #11