Paying Interest on Debt Tops Defense and Medicare Combined
Just the News Spending on net interest hit $514 billion in the first seven months of fiscal year 2024. That’s more than spending on both national defense ($498 billion) and [Read More]
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House Approves Measure Raising SS Retirement Age to 75
cnbc Meanwhile, the House of Representatives last week approved a retirement bill that would push out the age for required minimum distributions on certain savings accounts to 75, up from [Read More]
Dead Woman Received Social Security For Nearly 50 Years
Washington Times Social Security was still paying benefits this year to a woman who died nearly 50 years ago, and her nephew had been cashing the checks, federal prosecutors said [Read More]
FDR Would’ve Loved Wu Flu Relief Bills
American Greatness In his survey of the Great Depression and World War II, Freedom From Fear, historian David Kennedy makes the point that the New Deal—which manifestly failed to end [Read More]
The Social Security Scofflaw
Click2Houston: Man with Social Security tattoo on forehead wanted by Houston police after numerous robberies. A Houston man with a remarkably distinctive tattoo is wanted in connection with several aggravated [Read More]
Why progressives should protest against social security
Berniebots simply love Social Security and think it’s the shining example of government benefiting the common man. But Steven Stafford at The Federalist makes an interesting argument that in practice the [Read More]
Government Admits Hackers Stole Social Security Numbers of 21.5 Million People
YoungConservatives: Hackers apparently swiped over 21.5 million people’s social security numbers during a breach that occurred earlier this year. Nice to know all of that money being thrown toward national [Read More]