Nails against the blackboard for DeSantis to talk about people having “paid into Social Security” when in reality it is a Ponzi scheme in which current workers pay for current retirees, and current retirees are taking more benefits than they paid in.
I foolishly promised the rest of my NR colleagues that I would drink a shot for every single time Nikki Haley mentioned “DeSantisLies.com” when she first began an hour or so ago, and now alas I am legally dead.
If your drinking word for this debate was “desantislies.com,” you are both very perceptive and very drunk.
Wait, DeSantis didn’t vote to raise the life expectancy to 70 years old, he voted to raise the retirement age to 70. A verbal mix-up that steps on the attack Haley wanted to deliver.
If Congress could vote to raise the life expectancy, we would all be hanging around to our 120s.
Haley says DeSantis voted to raise life expectancies, which is not a thing Congress can raise by rule.
“I would never raise the retirement age in the face of declining life expectancy.” – Ron DeSantis on entitlement reform.
DeSantis pledges to work “with both sides of the aisle” on entitlements but offers a tendentious claim that the retirement age can’t be raised while life expectancies are falling.
DeSantis gives the politically necessary answer on Social Security, but obviously everybody’s whistling past the graveyard in terms of the solvency of the program.
DeSantis strums populist heartstrings by pining wistfully for a time when America was a manufacturing powerhouse, implying the decimation of American manufacturing is the outgrowth of a Wall Street plot. None of it is true. Per the Cato Institute: “By itself, the US manufacturing sector would constitute the world’s eighth‐largest economy.”
If the promise of entitlements is getting back what you paid in, most seniors would get a large benefits cut. Medicare beneficiaries especially get back far more than they paid in.