Survey of 2022 Senate campaign websites: on Social Security
Alex Lasry:
Expand Medicare to cover vision, hearing, and dental
But we can't stop there. Healthcare simply costs too much, especially for seniors. Even as they are covered by Medicare, Wisconsin seniors are getting nickeled and dimed by rising out of pocket costs.
That's why I support adding vision, hearing and dental coverage to Medicare, and why I support allowing Medicare to negotiate for lower prescription costs.
Source: 2022 Wisconsin Senate campaign website AlexLasry.com
Nov 16, 2019
Cindy Axne:
Stop cuts to benefits for current and future retirees
Cindy will fight to make sure that every senior can retire with dignity. Cindy believes that Social Security and Medicare are promises we made to our seniors who worked hard and earned these benefits.
Cindy will fight in Washington to stop attempts to cut benefits for current and future retirees and attempts to privatize Medicare and Social Security.
Source: 2022 Iowa Senate campaign website axne.house.gov
Apr 19, 2021
James Vandermaas:
We paid into Social Security, we are actually entitled to it
We have paid into these programs for our entire working lives and deserve to reap the benefits that we are due. Do not buy the nonsense that these programs are 'entitlements', but rather are programs that we paid in to, and actually are entitled to!
Most of the problems with Social Security are because Congress "borrowed" trillions of dollars in IOU's from our Social Security and Medicare, with no apparent plan to pay it back.
Source: 2022 Nevada Senate campaign website VoteVandermaas.com
Dec 9, 2021
Jim Lamon:
Give workers the option of Universal Savings Accounts
Jim would support fundamental systemic improvements:- Gradually Increase the Benefits Access Age.
- Stop Abuse of the Social Security Disability Fund.
- Universal Savings Accounts. Option for every worker to enjoy the benefit
from investment in the US economy while also creating a tangible, inheritable asset for their children, instead of the government-controlled trust fund model.
Source: 2022 Arizona Senate campaign website JimLamon.com
Apr 20, 2022
Michael Franken:
Make all earnings subject to the Social Security tax
Currently, workers and the self-employed are required to make a Social Security contribution only on the first $147,000 of earnings.
We need to make all earnings subject to the Social Security tax. Removing that earnings cap will increase revenue and bring greater fairness to the system.
Source: 2022 IA Senate campaign website FrankenForIowa.com
Jun 9, 2022
Michael J. Steele:
Save Social Security & Medicare by raising corporate taxes
I believe we could save Social Security and
Medicare by raising the corporate tax rate by 32 percent and offer free healthcare.
Source: 2022 N.D.Senate campaign website MichaelJSteeleForSenate.com
Dec 9, 2021
Trudy Busch Valentine:
Won't support cutting benefits, raising retirement age
Republicans have said aloud that they want to cut Medicare benefits and privatize Social Security. Trudy knows that this is a direct insult to millions of Americans who have worked hard all their lives under the belief that their futures would be
secured through these benefits. Trudy will tirelessly stand up against these cowardly attacks on Medicare and Social Security. Trudy will never support cutting a single dollar from these benefits or raising the retirement age by a single day.
Source: 2022 MO Senate campaign website TrudyBuschValentine.com
Jul 31, 2022
Will Boyd:
Oppose privatization of Social Security; protect benefits
- Protect Social Security's guaranteed benefits while also promoting individual investment accounts
- Oppose privatization of Social Security (I believe benefits should continue to be governed by the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974 which protects the rights of employment benefit plan recipients and their beneficiaries.)
Source: 2022 Alabama Senate campaign website DrWillBoyd.com
May 25, 2022
John Fetterman:
American bargain is the ability to retire with dignity
At the heart of the basic American bargain is the ability to retire with dignity. For so many seniors, Social Security checks don't go nearly as far as they used to. Too often, after spending most of their adult lives working, seniors find themselves
choosing between food, medication, and other basic needs. This is unacceptable.In the Senate, I will fight to protect Social Security from Republican attacks, and I'll support efforts to lower the Medicare eligibility age to
60 while expanding its benefits to include vision, hearing, and dental care. I'll also work to pass the Better Care Better Jobs Act to ensure that we're making necessary investments in home- and community-based services like home health care,
personal care, case management, and rehabilitative services. We have a responsibility to do right by the generations that came before us. When I'm your senator, I'll make that my mission.
Source: 2022 Pennsylvania Senate campaign website Fetterman.com
Jan 1, 2024
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