Trump Wants To Preserve Social Security Without Cuts, Hillary Doesn’t
By Patrick Howley – Breitbart News
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton harbors the desire to change Social Security for the cause of “fiscal responsibility,” which conflicts with both her current campaign platform and also the platform of her opponent Donald Trump.
An unearthed 2007 video shows Clinton plotting unclear “adjustments” to Social Security that sound much like the plans Paul Ryan proposed during the 2012 election, when the Republican ticket lost badly by prioritizing the so-called “entitlement crisis” and the cuts they said needed to be made.
This video conflicts with Clinton’s ill-defined current platform, which calls on tax hikes for the rich: “expand Social Security for today’s beneficiaries and generations to come by asking the wealthiest to contribute more.”
It also sharply contrasts Donald Trump’s “Third Way” economic platform, which cuts taxes across the board and preserves Social Security and Medicare in their current versions. Trump pays for this plan by generating new revenues from revising foreign trade deals and lightening business regulations to allow companies to keep their headquarters and their taxable profits in the United States.
If Trump can seize on Clinton’s long-held desire to enact Republican-style entitlement reform, and position himself as the man who can defend Social Security for people who have been paying into it for decades, then he can flip the narrative on Republican versus Democratic fiscal politics in this country and convert new voters.
Clinton made her telling remarks in an interview with The Keene Sentinel Editorial Board in New Hampshire in November 2007, during her first run for the presidency.
“I think that’s perceptive,” Clinton said when accused by a reporter of being “less than precise about what you would do.”
“So, here’s my position. I believe that we have to move back to fiscal responsibility,” Clinton said.
“I think if we don’t talk about fixing Social Security in the context of fiscal responsibility, I as president will lose one of the levers that I have to try to get the Congress back on the right path to be responsible. And I think there’s a lot of reasons why we need to do that.”
H/T – Breitbart News
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Booting seniors off Social Security even though they paid into it has been on the Democratic agenda since Obama got elected. Welfare recipients are much easier to control than Social Security recipients because there are many things you can’t do to someone’s Social Security benefit check that you can do to Welfare benefits – so they’ll raise the payroll tax, raise the limit and move SSA recipients to Welfare so it is easy to cut them off.