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SIGN Our Emergency Petition to
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Dear John,
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The coronavirus pandemic hasn't stopped attacks on Social Security — in fact, the assault on this vital program has ratcheted up in recent weeks. Following on the heels of President Trump's repeated calls to implement a payroll tax cut, which would reduce revenue going into the Social Security Trust Funds, the White House is now floating yet another outrageous idea to undermine Social Security and jeopardize workers' future benefits.
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Senior White House officials are considering a plan that would allow Americans to choose to receive checks of up to $10,000 in exchange for a delay of their Social Security benefits. This is similar to another proposal that Senator Marco Rubio (FL), Ivanka Trump and other have pushed in recent years that would have sacrificed parents' future Social Security benefits in exchange for paid family leave. Both of these plans represent a gross misuse of Social Security for purposes completely unrelated to its core purpose: providing baseline retirement security for American workers.
And Americans should not be forced to mortgage their future Social Security benefits in order to pay for rent, food and other expenses today! That's why I'm asking you to sign our Emergency Petition to Congress today, urging your member of Congress to reject any proposal that weakens Social Security or the promise of future earned benefits under the guise of helping American workers.
This is just the latest in a series of proposed assaults on Social Security, including calls from White House advisors and so-called fiscal hawks in Congress to cut payroll taxes, raise the retirement age, adopt stingier Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLAs) and slash Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) by billions of dollars — along with their insistence that Social Security be cut to pay for tax cuts that benefit the very wealthy and big corporations.
While the National Committee believes that Congress should pass additional legislation that helps workers survive the coronavirus pandemic, both physically and financially, earned Social Security benefits are sacrosanct and should only be available for Social Security, period. So please help us stand firm against devastating changes to Social Security by signing our Emergency Petition to Congress today!
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Max Richtman
President & CEO
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