The top 0.1% benefited from the corporate tax rate dropping from 10.5% in 2015 to as low as 5% in 2019. The bottom 50% of households got essentially zero benefit. Corporate profits grew 59% since 2015. Worker wages did not. The Trump corporate tax cut was a wealth transfer.

Just a scenario for the second half of this halving cycle, Apr 2024 - Apr 2028 (no not a prediction, just a scenario, food for thought, you assign the odds): 🔳 $100K in October 🔳 New ATH (>$126K) before Christmas 🔳 2027 - 2028: >$232K (4x $58K bottom) What do you think?

Yep!

With every paycheck since your first job, you've contributed 6.2%, and your employer has paid 6.2%. That’s 12.4% every time. Social Security should never be considered a handout – it’s EARNED.

The Senate should be immediately voting on Banning Insider Trading. We sent this over weeks ago from the House. What is the hold up? More dog shows?

Over and over again, private equity has gutted one industry after another — and walked away richer. Our Stop Wall Street Looting Act would fight back.

ICYMI: Members of the Texas Alliance showed up in 98º weather to a public hearing in Dallas on the future of Social Security and Medicare. Five were denied entry (to a PUBLIC hearing!) but still spoke out, because cutting benefits shouldn't even be a question!

BE HONEST! Do you support DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin deporting 70,000 illegal aliens every month?

Warren is intentionally deceiving you, like all looters do. She knows why the number is $184,500. It is the tax cap and the benefit cap at once. Earnings above that line are not taxed and are not counted toward your check. Cap the benefit, cap the tax. She omits the half that explains it. The most anyone can collect at full retirement age in 2026 is $4,152 a month, no matter how large the paycheck was. Then read her own bill. On S.770, the Chief Actuary's description states the earnings taxed above $250,000 are not credited for benefit purposes. Tax the money, pay nothing back for it. That is a wealth transfer, not a contribution, and she knows the difference. What she calls a fair share means the money a man earned belongs to whoever needs it more. She and the rest of those like her should be ashamed of themselves.

A teacher earning $60,000 pays Social Security taxes on every dollar she earns. A worker earning $184,500 does too. But someone earning $10 million pays tax on just the first $184,500. That doesn’t make sense. We can protect Social Security if everyone paid their fair share.

In 1992, Pepsi gave us one of the sexiest commercials ever put on American television. Cindy Crawford pulls up to a roadside gas station in a red sports car wearing a white tank top and cutoff jean shorts. Doris Troy’s “Just One Look” is playing as she walks over to the Pepsi machine, buys a can and takes a drink while two boys watch from behind a fence. The commercial aired during Super Bowl XXVI, and Pepsi was actually introducing its new can design. That was the joke. You think the boys are staring at Cindy until one of them asks, “Is that a great new Pepsi can or what?” It was only about 30 seconds, but people still remember it more than 30 years later. I remember Cindy Crawford. I don’t remember paying much attention to the Pepsi can. Do you remember this commercial?

This is the richest country in the history of the world. We don't want people to scrape by after working their entire lives. They should be able to retire with dignity– and they can. All we have to do is have billionaires pay the same rate into Social Security as everyone else.

Today, I voted to proceed to debate on the Clarity Act, legislation that would provide oversight on digital assets like crypto.    Congress should establish a federal framework to protect investors, provide clear rules of the road, and promote American innovation and entrepreneurship.    However, I remain concerned about the bill’s impact on law enforcement, national security, and community bankers, and look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues to improve the bill.

Birthright citizenship belongs to the children of American citizens, not those who broke our immigration laws to come to the United States. I introduced a Constitutional Amendment to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens.

What's actually "radical" here? The richest 0.1% hold as much wealth as the bottom 90% of families combined. Billionaires sitting on $7.6 TRILLION while working people can't afford rent, groceries, or healthcare. A wealth tax? That's not radical. That's just fair.

There is not one dollar of the $327mm in increased spending that was mandated by the State.

And certain young assholes want to take it away from them after they’ve already paid in. So of course they want to keep it. You just don’t wanna pay it. Shame on you

Without boomers, the U.S. would not be the wealthiest nation in the world. It did not happen by accident. no silicon transistor, no cell phones, no internet, no MRI machines, no solar panels, etc. No apple , NVDA , No MSFT, No IBM,

Absolutely right, @turek4iowa! #IASen

Dr. Oz wants to "fix" Social Security by making YOU work longer. He said: "It's worth $1 trillion to our GDP." Translation: workers break their backs so billionaires don't have to pay taxes. Don't raise the retirement age. Scrap the damn cap.