New proposed Gas tax
THIS WILL EFFECT ALL OF US. Be advised, Senator Corker from Tennessee, and Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut have proposed a new gas tax that will bring prices up 12 cents per gallon on gas and 2...
Forum Discussion
bgum wrote:
People who count Social Security and Medicare in the budget are really funny.
You see Social Security and Medicare are paid for out of the Social Security TRUST FUNDS. Those trust funds were saved thru the Social Security taxes paid by working Americans. While military expenditures, welfare, Medicaid, foriegn aid, etc. is paid for out of income taxes. So to count Social Security and Medicare as part of the yearly budget is a falsehood. The 46% SS and Medicare costs is paid by SS and Medicare's trust fund. No other budget item pays for itself. Wake up people. That is why some are pushing for them to be off budget. If so they would not be 46% of the yearly budget and that would show that the military budget is really a much higher percentage of the real yearly budget.
Do not forget there were many items paid for with the Social Security Trust Fund that did not have anything remotely related to Social Security or Medicare. If the money spent from the Social Security Trust Fund had been spent only on Social Security and Medicare there would be no issue with the Social Security Trust Fund.
