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Jill Stein on Social Security
Green Party presidential nominee; Former Challenger for MA Governor
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Remove income cap on social security taxes
- Strengthen rather than cut Medicare and Social Security.
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Remove the cap on social security taxes above a certain level of income.
Source: Stein-Baraka platform on 2016 presidential campaign website
, Aug 8, 2016
Save Social Security and Medicare from assault by the right
Jill's passions were not limited to military matters. Her heart was filled with empathy and kindness for the most vulnerable among us. She rejected the bootstrap philosophy of extremist free market capitalism. She believed that all people are endowed
with certain unalienable rights. That these rights include life, liberty, food, shelter, education, medical care, and the pursuit of happiness. She supported all public programs which accommodate basic human needs. Food stamps, subsidized housing,
public education, mass transportation, single-payer healthcare. She even dared suggesting taxing the wealthy at a much higher rate in order that the poor might live with some semblance of dignity and comfort. She sought to save Social Security and
Medicare from assault by the right, and to pull senior citizens out from under the bus. Jill must have known that the folks who own everything and make all the decisions wouldn't let her get away with such shenanigans. She never had a chance.
Source: Counterpunch.org on 2016 presidential hopefuls
, Nov 9, 2015
Privatizing would lead to huge losses for retirees
Q: Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts?A: This proposal to turn our
Social Security system over to private corporations would lead to huge losses for retirees who depend on Social Security. And it would create investment risks that cannot be tolerated in our Social Security program.
Source: Presidential Election 2012 PVS Political Courage Test
, Nov 1, 2012
Don't turn over retirement to private corporations
Q: Do you support allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts?A: No. This proposal to turn our Social Security system over to private corporations would lead to huge losses
for retirees who depend on Social Security. And it would create investment risks that cannot be tolerated in our Social Security program.
Source: Presidential 2012 PVS Political Courage Test
, Nov 1, 2012
System perfectly solvent when rich pay their fair share
OBAMA: Social Security is structurally sound. It's going to have to be tweaked the way it was by Ronald Reagan and Democratic Speaker Tip O'Neill. STEIN: Both Obama and Romney-Ryan are both aiming for essentially for the same targets.
They're both aiming for Social Security to be about 5% of GDP some years down the line whether it's four or eight years. Obama is already calling for some cuts, basically to the cost of living reimbursements.
So, heads up about what is going to happen after the election. You will see the walk differ from the talk. We can fix this. For Social Security, we simply need to raise the cap on Social Security. It will be perfectly solvent when the rich
are paying their fair share.
ANDERSON: The Social Security payroll tax is as regressive a tax known to mankind, because if you make one $110,000, you don't pay anything on the income over that amount.
Source: Democracy Now! Expanded First Obama-Romney 2012 debate
, Oct 4, 2012
Social Security is not in crisis; and it's not a handout
Q: How do you feel about privatizing Social Security?A: Social Security needs to be protected. People have put into Social Security--it is not an entitlement program in that sense. It is not a free lunch, not a government handout--it's a return on
what people have put into it. It's critical to elders--their resources are being drained. Debt among elders is skyrocketing--we can hardly afford to trim back Social Security as would happen in a privatized system.
We would challenge the very notion that Social Security is in crisis mode warranting messing with its foundations. It's not in crisis at all.
Q: Do you support raising the cap on
Social Security deductions, above the current limit of $106,000?
A: The cap could be lifted to ensure that Social Security should be solvent m without question forever.
Source: 2011 OnTheIssues interview with Jill Stein
, Dec 21, 2011
Page last updated: Oct 29, 2016