The War On Senior Citizens
Close on the heels of the disastrous rollout of the Plan D drug program, Andante noticed that Homeland Security has increased seizures of drugs being imported from Canada. You should go over and read: Drop the Lipitor and put your hands up.
They are trying to sneak the dismantling of Social Security into through the back door, eliminate the $255 death payment, cut off payments for teenagers who have left high school, etc. to cover some of the revenue lost when they do away with the Estate Tax.
All of this talk about tax cuts never seems to include Social Security taxes, even as they spend hundreds of billions of dollars of those taxes to hide the real size of their deficits. They don’t talk about the fact that a lot of their revenue increases are based on increases in Social Security taxes, not general taxes.