SOCIAL SECURITY FAIRNESS ACT

 

 

The Social Security Fairness Act just signed by President Biden reverses a law passed in 1983 during the Republican Regan Presidency that reduced Social Security benefits for anyone receiving a state pension.

 

I paid into social security for 25 years, then went to work for the State of Alaska teaching school in the remote Native villages.

  

When I applied for my Social Security pension twenty-five years ago, that pension was reduced by 50% because I was receiving a retirement from the State of Alaska.

 

The Republicans have always been against Social Security and any other federal program they consider discretionary spending (Medicare, Medicaid, public school funding, lunch programs…)

 

Their objection to the new bill is that it will deplete the Social Security fund causing it to run out of money by 2035.

 

  It is all a matter of priority spending as Trump’s three-trillion-dollar tax cut for the mega-wealthy would fund Social Security into the next century.

 

Future Social Security recipients had better hope Democrats are in power in 2035 or Social Security may be a thing of the past. 

 

Trump’s MAGA base doesn’t understand that working people voting for a Republican is like turkeys voting for Thanksgiving.

 

Now with the passage of the Social Security Fairness Act, I will receive my full Social Security Pension – of course, twenty-five years too late.

 

the Ol’Buzzard