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The Protecting Retirement Opportunities and Maintaining Income Security for Everyone, or PROMISE Act, comes on the heels of the latest Social Security Board of Trustees’ annual report, which found that Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, a year earlier than last year’s projections.

Even with it being clear for years that Social Security was running out of money, Congress has been loath to act. Making changes to the program — and potentially cutting benefits — has long been politically unpopular, and lawmakers have repeatedly kicked Social Security and Medicare’s troubling math to the next generation.

It’s not a bill with any real proposals or solutions. It’s just a bill saying Congress should establish an “independent, bipartisan advisory committee” that would make recommendations to Congress to look into utterly predictable social security shortfalls, which will go the way it always goes (most recently, back in 2024), where Democrats suggest raising the payroll tax cap, Republicans suggest raising the retirement age, lobbyists ruin everything, and social security still faces budget shortfalls in 6 years.

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[–] Pistachio@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Lots are saying to take from the DoD, but y'all're missin the point! More funding to an unchecked DoD means more citizens that see the DoD as a way to have a stable life, more servicembers means more people that can't sue the government when they get put in harms way for living in condemned living quarters, are made to man the burn pits, or get used to test new bio weapons; then we can enshittify the VA and cause mental anguish to these "suckers and losers" so they'll sing karaoke into Kurt's last microphone.

Dead veterans don't need benefits.

So you see, its all 4D chess to get less people even on social security to boost social security's ability to be funneled into the stonks! So more wars it is!

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago

I have a solution. Well several actually…

  • Stop spending trillions on unnecessary wars and military budgets.
  • Raise the stupidly low social security cap (currently $184k … so like actually fucking make the rich pay for shit)
[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 19 points 4 hours ago

1.1 trillion for bombs

$0 for something we’ve been planning our wholes lives around depending on

Yeah totally our fault, stupid taxpayer suckers

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 33 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

250% tax on private jet fuel oughta cover it.

[–] StrawberryPigtails@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Hell, a death tax on assets over $10 million would probably cover it.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago

As much as I love the idea, I'm sure their accountants would find a way around it. That's largely what trust funds are for today.

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Taking a chunk of the military's budget ought to do it...

They're literally pissing away the solution we need on a needless war with Iran

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

literally pissing

I think that's not accurate. They're doing it with bombs.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I bet there are congressional staffers whose only job is to come up with clever, marketable acronyms for bills

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 hours ago

These days it's probably an AI :/