Sen. Rubio: After Tax Cut to Rich, GOP Will Cut Social Security and Medicare

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Been seeing so much bad press on the tax bill but I feel like it's partially because I frequent more liberal-leaning sources (reddit, HN, Facebook friends). Can anyone post some well reasoned articles for the tax bill?

Also, Social Security as it stands right now isn't sustainable anyway, so we'll have to make changes either way... A prudent one would be to raise the SS age to 70-75 for anyone born after today.

I am part of few forums where we have an almost a good number of conservative and liberal posters. Majority of the conservative posters also think that these laws are stupid and will hurt the economy. But sad thing is that they say they will still vote for Republicans.

This headline is insanely biased, and unworthy of HN.

Agreed, article is pretty shallow in analysis as well.

What a hack (the reporter) Social Security and Medicare are over 50% of the federal budget and only going to grow. It would seem prudent to look at structural changes there when discussing federal debt and deficits into the future.

It's not like cuts to Medicare or Social Security will affect even a single member of the house or senate who votes for this or any of their donors, so why wouldn't they cut them so they can redistribute that wealth to the rich who so badly need it?

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