John,

In 1980, David Koch ran on the Libertarian Party’s ticket as their vice presidential candidate. At the time, his party’s platform was considered highly controversial, including “the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid” and “repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressive Social Security system.”

If those right-wing talking points sound familiar, it’s because they’ve become standard for many mainstream Republicans, including Leader Mitch McConnell.

Now, the Koch brothers are putting their unlimited resources behind a campaign to privatize Social Security.

Pitch in today to beat the Koch brothers’ zombie plan to privatize and destroy Social Security!

The Koch brothers have enlisted their Tea Party astroturf group FreedomWorks and the architect behind the Trump-GOP tax scam―Stephen Moore.

Let’s stop this dangerous campaign in its tracks!

Pitch in today to beat the Koch brothers’ zombie plan to privatize and destroy Social Security!

Mitch McConnell has made clear that if Donald Trump wins re-election and Republicans maintain control of the U.S. Senate, their first move in 2021 is to come after our earned benefits. And that’s exactly what the Koch brothers are counting on.

Read Michael’s email below and then donate to Social Security Works to stop the Koch brothers’ dangerous plan in its tracks.

Thank you,

Linda Benesch
Social Security Works

--MICHAEL'S EMAIL--

John,

The billionaire Koch brothers have launched their latest assault on our Social Security system, funding a project to push Americans back toward privatization.

It’s because of the success of our movement to expand Social Security that the Kochs are investing in a counternarrative. It’s up to us to keep up the pressure and continue sharing the truth about Social Security: That it WORKS.

We’ve got a plan to smother the latest Koch campaign before it even starts. Pitch in $5 to EXPAND, never cut or privatize, Social Security.

The Koch brothers are putting the muscle of FreedomWorks (the astroturf group behind the Tea Party) behind Stephen Moore―the architect of Trump’s tax scam, and failed nominee to the Federal Reserve. Moore recently wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal calling for the creation of “Private Social Security Accounts.”

In his op-ed, Moore himself wrote: “To be sure, the stock market is risky and highly volatile in the short term, as tens of millions of Americans discovered painfully during the Great Recession.”  

That is exactly why privatizing Social Security would be a disaster. Why on Earth would we want to turn our earned benefits over to Wall Street bankers who have shown time and time again that they are guided by greed?

Private accounts break the fundamental promise of Social Security: It is an earned benefit that we can all count on, not something we each hoard for ourselves. And switching to a private system robs current retirees and soon-to-be retirees by removing the FICA contributions that fund the system now. Privatized Social Security is just a bad idea―that’s why we beat it in 2005, and we’ll beat it again.

Chip in $5 to beat the Koch brothers’ zombie plan to destroy Social Security.

Thanks,

Michael Phelan
Social Security Works