(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Oh Yes, they DID! [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-08 The GOP will nickel and dime us to death, if we just give them the chance. — — The GOP got into a “shouting match” with President Biden last night at the State of the Union Address. They feigned extreme outrage for being rightly called out, for their previous calls to cut our Social Safety-net programs. Like Social Security, like Medicare and Medicaid, like SNAP, like the earned income tax credits … etc. But let’s let their on-the-record statements “speak for themselves” shall we … Senator Rick Scott, and National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair: At the center of the current debate over the federal entitlement programs is an 11-point plan released by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) last February, which called for all federal legislation to sunset after five years as part of an effort to curb government spending. “All federal legislation sunsets in 5 years. If a law is worth keeping, Congress can pass it again,” the document said. Ex VP Mike Pence, and likely Presidential candidate: “There are modest reforms in entitlements that can be done without disadvantaging anybody at the point of the need,” [Mike] Pence said, noting that a substantial portion of federal spending goes toward entitlement programs. Senator Mike Lee: When Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) initially ran for Senate in 2010, he called for the complete elimination of Social Security. “It will be my objective to phase out Social Security, to pull it up by the roots and get rid of it,” Lee said at a campaign event in 2010, adding, “There’s going to be growing pains associated with doing this. We can’t do it all at once.” RoJo, Lindsey, Macro, and Waltz are all on the cut “Entitlements” train: [...] Just last summer, Senator Ron Johnson called for subjecting Medicare and Social Security to annual budget negotiations. In fact, cutting Social Security and Medicare seemed very much top of mind for Republicans last year: Lindsey Graham declared entitlement reform a “must,” and the House’s largest Republican caucus, the conservative Republican Study Committee, released a proposal that urged raising the eligibility age for both Medicare and Social Security, called for increased means testing in Medicare, and suggested a move toward privatization for Social Security. [...] “I’m all for a balanced budget, but we’re not going to do it on the backs of our troops and our military,” Representative Michael Waltz, a Florida Republican, told Fox Business last month. “If we really want to talk about the debt and spending, it’s the entitlements programs.” [...] Of course, these ideas go back much further. Marco Rubio said he was open to raising the retirement age in 2010 in his first Senate campaign. [...] www.vanityfair.com And let’s not forget the guy who single-handedly made Kevin McCarthy the “Squeaker of the House” — for a political price of course, in their secret “back-room deal” … x Matt Gaetz personally supports cuts to Social Security and Medicare but said politically Republicans should start with cuts to SNAP (food stamps) and Medicaid. Gaetz: “If it were Matt Gaetz, I think we do need reforms to Social Security and Medicare.” pic.twitter.com/VAAmnlHa6H — PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) February 4, 2023 — Oh Yes, they DID! Republicans have been advocating slashing our “Earned Benefits” for years. GWB made it a significant part of the GOP Platform, when advocated for “Privatizing Social Security,” for years. Biden is right. And Biden got the best of them last, by getting the GOP to feign their support for Social Programs — before the entire Nation — Joe got them to scream: they never said any such thing! But their own words betray them, and their recordings and tapes — as well as their 11-Point Plans, that they want the entire GOP to enact … If only Americans were gullible enough to put them back into power. Let’s hope, enough Americans have learned that lesson: that the GOP is not to be trusted. Not with our Social Security, not with our Medicare, not with SNAP — and most of all, NOT with making Corporations pay their fair share in Taxes. No. The GOP is ALL about giving away huuuuge Tax Cuts to the Wealthy, instead. We should never let anyone forget it. It’s what they believe. — Cutting taxes would require taking on massive new debt — the Congressional Budget Office projected a 10-year cost of the Trump tax cut at $1.5 trillion. When Republicans are out of power they use America’s debt as a cudgel against Democrats, insisting the country can’t afford programs that boost the living standards of workers or even true investments like infrastructure spending. But the GOP voiced little concern about the ability to afford this tax cut. www.rollingstone.com — Oct 2020 [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/8/2151946/-Oh-Yes-they-DID Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/