Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Saturday that one of his top priorities, once he takes control of the chamber’s Social Security Subcommittee in January, will be to lift the cap on taxable income that funds the program and increase benefit payments by at least $2400 per year.

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    We could probably spend less money on the baby killing machine that makes psychopath soldiers.

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      What!? And let our military shrink to only 600% the size of the next largest military ?

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        It’s funny how some people, (not you frisbird) who claim to be lefties and say they hate Trump, go ape shit the moment you touch the military budget.

        Fucking posers.

        “I needed education in my shitty country so I killed people but that makes me okay because my country is shitty! I’m innocent”

        Why is there no guillotine emoji?

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      We can obviously spend less on the military, but that’s not how OASDI is funded…

      You also don’t know anything about the military apparently

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        They can free up that money and allocate it elsewhere.

        ETA Pentagon never passed an audit.

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          How do you pass an audit while doing classified R&D?

          “Yes, and here we spent 10 million dollars on a project which we cannot confirm exists”

          That’s also how you end up with the Pentagon spending 10 million dollars on a single toilet. They bought more than the toilet, they’re just only willing to show you the toilet.