Collecting My Thoughts

Our retirees group had talked about it, but still, it was a shock. I'm still going to carefully examine a check I received from the U.S....

If you are retired and receiving a public pension (like STRS or PERS in Ohio) you couldn't "double dip" and also get your soci...

Who are they kidding? $20/hour in California for an unskilled teen-ager, or recently released prisoner? Minimum wage was never intended to ...

"In 2021, Social Security spent $57 billion more than it collected in dedicated tax revenue and interest on its trust funds. The truste...

 Six charts illustrating what is happening to non-defense spending/safety net.  6 Charts Highlight Trends Driven by Growing Nondefense Spend...

It's not exactly fake news, but it's misleading--the story you hear that the middle class is shrinking and so many more people are u...

From:  Overview of the Federal Tax System, 2018, p. 15 Congressional Research Service, March 29, 2018 “Payroll taxes are used to fund spec...

As socialists try to make us feel guilty for “ignoring” the poor, sick, prisoners, immigrants while quoting Bible verses--think on this. ...

I know there are some who think Medicare is "free" healthcare, and believe all Americans should have it rather than the ragged, p...

Where do we get these data managers who work for the federal government? Are they like school children who get passed along to the next grad...

There are so many holes in this testimony about Social Security it is hard to know where to poke. GW Bush wanted to reform SS by creating pr...

Just heard a Social Security defender on Fox News say that for every $1 in benefits, Social Security payments generate $2 in the economy. Wh...

Substitute a few words, and it's a good description of ACA in our era. "We find it hard to conceive of a greater triumph of imagina...

Most of our tax money (70%) goes for social programs, especially Medicare, Medicaid, VA, and Social Security.  Some conservatives don’t like...

Social Security was designed for a nation with a life expectancy in the 60s. The plan was that not many would ever get what they were taxed ...

At the outset of the Social Security program (law was passed in 1935), the federal government published an informational pamphlet that stat...

Let Obama take us over the Fiscal Cliff (he's out campaigning for tax increases right now) so people know what he's about. Of cour...

In 2010, the federal government spent 61% of its finances on housing and community services, welfare and social services, recreation and cul...

“In 2011, the Old-Age and Survivors Trust Fund, which pays for retirement and survivors’ benefits, took in $698.8 billion, which includes $1...

One of the better and easy to understand explanations I've seen. Especially that 100% death tax.