I think campaign funds should be taxed @ 25% to be used exclusively to bolster Social Security, Medicare, mental health, Medicaid and social programs that are being constantly short-changed on a regular basis. Local campaign funds should be used to supplement local needs.
Every pleasure and service common citizens indulge in is taxed. I think politicians should share the pain. Campaign funds would boost the tax base and eliminate the scare tactics I have been hearing about since 1951 about Social Security in my first national election.
Has anyone done the math that taxes from campaign funds would generate? Taxing all money used for campaigns could address the issue of “dark” money. It would solve the shortage in the S.S. Trust Fund that Congress has been using as a petty cash fund, money that is deducted from our earnings. If we have no guarantee of S.S., this seems to be taxes under another name.
Minimum wage should be replaced with living wage. In my opinion, it should be mandatory that salaries are adequate to survive. If an employer claims he can’t afford a living wage, he shouldn’t be allowed to make money off the backs of poor people who have no alternative.
Elon Musk proclaimed S.S. to be a Ponzi scheme. The real Ponzi scheme is minimum wage, which makes the employer richer and the employee poorer. Minimum wage is corporate welfare, which culminated in conglomerates that are controlling our economy, and eliminating S.S. has been — and still is — their goal.
I did not watch Trump’s address to Congress. Why watch an immoral, unethical, lawless, chronic liar who bullies everyone?
Jeanette Simec