Robert ReichIf Republicans actually gave a crap about controlling the debt, they’d repeal the Trump tax cuts or pass taxes on the rich. But we all know this isn’t about that. This is a backdoor ploy to force cuts to Social Security and Medicare. We cannot let them get away with this.
cyclical_obsessive@rbreich "... backdoor ploy to force cuts to Social Security..."
Not just Republicans. In researching why Step 10 1040 Worksheet Taxation of Social Security Benefits - the $12,000 MFJ / $9,000 single threshold is not indexed (resulting in higher taxation of Social Security Benefits every year).
""The lack of an indexing provision for the thresholds was not an oversight by Congress... benefit taxation .. politically more feasible ... diminish .. as years passed."
SS Bulletin 1 V56, No. 2 1993