Republicans will allow default to protect their donors from higher taxes. To them the choice is not a real choice. They are paid to keep taxes low for the very rich. No wealthy family draws a substantial portion of their income from social security or depend upon Medicare.  These safety net programs can go broke.  These trust funds in total have over $6 trillion in them.  That money will be drained well before any long term revenue deal is struck. Relying upon borrowing is preferred by the super rich as it creates an asset class to invest in.Overwhelmingly the fault lies in the unfunded tax cuts by Presidents Reagan, Bush 2 and Trump but it doesn’t help when Democrats tried to push thru only partially funded Build Back Better as well as Student Loan forgiveness which again was totally unfunded and not even quantified. Social security should be ring fenced away from the budget completely. It has been funded since the 1930’s. It’s not an expense by taxpayers it’s a pension fund. It might help is Democrats allowed SS to invest in some assets aside from US government bonds. It would be far header for Republicans to steal your shares in Microsoft or Apple. The trustees of SS should be well known and have wide spread community support. Norway has a trillion dollar    wealth fund but there are many other countries examples

Republicans will allow default to protect their donors from higher taxes. To them the choice is not a real choice. They are paid to keep taxes low for the very rich. No wealthy family draws a substantial portion of their income from social security or depend upon Medicare.  These safety net programs can go broke.  These trust funds in total have over $6 trillion in them.  That money will be drained well before any long term revenue deal is struck. Relying upon borrowing is preferred by the super rich as it creates an asset class to invest in.Overwhelmingly the fault lies in the unfunded tax cuts by Presidents Reagan, Bush 2 and Trump but it doesn’t help when Democrats tried to push thru only partially funded Build Back Better as well as Student Loan forgiveness which again was totally unfunded and not even quantified. Social security should be ring fenced away from the budget completely. It has been funded since the 1930’s. It’s not an expense by taxpayers it’s a pension fund. It might help is Democrats allowed SS to invest in some assets aside from US government bonds. It would be far header for Republicans to steal your shares in Microsoft or Apple. The trustees of SS should be well known and have wide spread community support. Norway has a trillion dollar    wealth fund but there are many other countries examples

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