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If Republicans really want to govern and help fund Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid all they have to do is take the cap off wages for contribution purposes. As Heather discussed, they can also increase revenue by allowing the tax cuts to expire for those earning more than $400,000 and raising the corporate income tax rate. Trickle down economics doesn't work and corporations take excess profits and use them to buy back stock which increases their stock value. It's time to make everyone pay a fair share so we can do want other wealthy countries do and provide healthcare, education, child care, rent relief and other basic items to everyone. Of course, Republicans don't want to govern. They want to give more money to the wealthy and corporations because they don't care about anyone else. We need to vote Blue, up and down the ballot.

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Brava! This ancient on Social Security and Medicare wants desperately to be back in France where medicine in the small towns was caring and excellent. Maybe this is the place to tell about the lovely Russian woman who is my furious neighbor. With Trump and the Heritage Foundation Project 25 (Carnegie on OxyContin) she thinks escaping Russia to come here was a mistake. (Her American husband died some years ago.)

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