Kamala Harris, The Winning Choice for Seniors, Protecting Medicare & Social Security
As president, Harris will expand Social Security and Medicare and ensure that all benefits will continue to be paid in full and on time for the foreseeable future by requiring billionaires to pay their fair share. Nancy J. Altman, Common Dreams, July 24, 2024. 🔅
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Joe Biden has been the best president for seniors in over half a century. Kamala Harris will be even better. As president, Biden has been an unwavering protector of Social Security and Medicare. In his 2024 State of the Union Address, he made it crystal clear that he would shut down any Republican attempts to create a closed-door commission to cut Social Security and Medicare. Indeed, he promised, “If anyone here tries to cut Social Security or Medicare or raise the retirement age, I will stop them.”
Harris will be as fierce a defender, and she will do more.
She will expand Social Security and Medicare and ensure that all benefits will continue to be paid in full and on time for the foreseeable future by requiring billionaires to pay their fair share. Vice President Harris, President Biden, and the Democrats have already laid out their shared policy vision for a future Harris administration. It proves that a focus on seniors’ policy is written into the DNA of a Democratic administration. The draft 2024 Democratic Party Platform states:
The right to a secure and dignified retirement is one of the bedrock principles of American life. Before Social Security, almost half of American seniors lived in poverty… Democrats changed that: In 1935, we passed Social Security; in 1965, we signed Medicare and Medicaid into law. These are more than government programs—they’re a promise that we’ve made as a country, that after a lifetime of hard work, people deserve to retire with dignity and security...
Trump and his MAGA allies are shredding that sacred trust, and saying they’ll cut Social Security to give billionaires another tax cut…
Trump has called Social Security a “Ponzi scheme” and warned, “There’s a lot you can do in terms of cutting.” As president, he tried to slash both Social Security and Medicare programs in every budget, and to gut Medicaid, which provides home care to over 7 million seniors and people with disabilities. House Republicans have vowed to cut Social Security by over $1.5 trillion, to raise the retirement age, and to transform Medicare into a voucher-like system, threatening the program…Democrats won’t let that happen. We’ll strengthen the program and expand benefits by asking the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share. We also oppose any actions to cut Medicare benefits... - Read More,
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/kamala-harris-choice-for-seniors
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She'll be a good President for ALL of us, even those who refuse to vote for her. Would Chump ever say that?
