you said "you would have been paying more taxes". at no time was the prospect of an across the board tax hike proposed, meaning that as much as you try to walk back your statement, you were still dead wrong.
i don't speak feces. sorry.
fully solvent until 2037. can pay out something like 70% until 2084. i have no doubts it will be there.
it can be permanently solvent by simply raising the cap.
and please learn the difference between "here" and "hear"
not a drag according to the most thorough study conducted on illegal immigration done by the state of texas in 2006. and that just measured how many taxes they paid in versus what services they received. they came out over $400 million ahead, a net boon. and then consider the fact that they added $17 billion to the economy just by being there.
welfare and other social programs are like a stitch in time saving nine. you may not be able to see the entirety of the picture, but it would cost more and create more social ills to do away with these programs and just let kids go to bed hungry.
i get plenty of work every fall from "poor people". this year i will be employing a few people myself, and i am as poor as it gets.
you have an incredibly simplistic way of viewing things here. not surprising.
awww, poor baby. they're all going to go galt on us? go right ahead. plenty of people right behind them to take their places. that is the beauty of capitalism, everybody is replaceable.
btw, empirical evidence proves you wrong. tax levels under clinton were higher than they are now, and not everyone threw a hissy fit and shut down to show that big bad government a lesson. so your simpleton argument and idle threats are laughable. watch me laugh at you in emoticon style ---->