Social Security & Medicare
In reply to the discussion: Lindsey Graham Thinks Seniors May 'Have to' Take Less Money and pay more tax on SS benefits [View all]jaxexpat
(7,794 posts)It's about decreasing business owners labor costs and making the employee ever more painfully dependent on the fickle largesse of their employer. The will of Republicans has been laser focused on eliminating any and all employee rights and benefits in all their forms since Roosevelt first promoted the concept of fair dealing in the 1930's.
It's been almost 5 generations since those days and the whining hasn't changed a bit. It's the great and great-great-grandchildren of those very sweat-shopists and slave-wagerists who now fearmonger about fabricated threats in their efforts to kill the snake of "socialism". When they call any reasonable solution to allay society's avoidable calamities "socialism" that's when they tell the REAL big lie. The lie they've been telling so long that they actually believe it's true.