Trump’s Commerce Sec. Says Musk Will ‘Get Rid of’ Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid Because They Are ‘Tax Scams’

I want every dollar I paid into the system in the last 20+ years of my work life back if they cancel those programs.

In other western countries, the state asks for taxes so it can use them to provide services to its citizen. In my country, states actually lower taxes when they've had too much net income in a year. Because why ask for so much money if you don't actually need it.

In the US, it sounds like taxes are seen as a tribute to the ruling elite, with anything given back to the people seen as evil and undeserved.

Musk has no protection that federally elected officials do. If his fingerprints are on the corpses of the mentally ill in any form including cutting their financial support by calling it "entitlement" I will fucking execute his waddling ass. Full fucking stop. Dead man. Citizens are entitled to a minimum quality of life that isn't shit. Musk isn't even a citizen. He needs to get the fuck out of the public eye before he does something that requires a response. Like murdering the mentally ill like Republicans LOVE to do, which people should have fucking responded over by now. But they just step over their corpses and act put out.

This is a pretty deliberate falsification of what this idiot is saying using out-of-context quotes. He's saying that by cutting fraud they'll be able to raise $1 trillion. He said specifically that they wouldn't touch Social Security except for fraud.

Of course the claim that there's $1 trillion of fraud is false, but we don't need to promote misleading clickbait headlines like this when there's so much awful news coming out of this administration as it is.

Edit: Look. Social Security and Medicare are about $1 trillion each. To save $2 trillion they would have to eliminate these programs entirely. People would lose their homes. People would starve. If they wanted to start an actual revolution against the government, this is exactly how they would do it. No one is saying to trust any of these people; I'm saying doing this and remaining in power are at odds.