Affordable Healthcare, Social Security, and Medicare Are on the Ballot
Joe Biden wants to preserve the solvency of Social Security and Medicare by raising taxes on high incomes rather than by cutting benefits.
Trump is not the first Republican to talk about cuts to these programs. Trump said: “There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting and in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements.” The “theft” and “bad management” jabber is his smokescreen.
The difference between the two candidates couldn’t be more stark.
Biden’s position of taxing the rich is popular—significant majorities think the rich don’t pay enough in taxes; the programs are popular.
Paul Krugman, an Economic Sciences Nobelist and NYTimes columnist, thinks this is a major issue: