Is Elon Musk coming for your social security?

[Anonymous]

Sure you might not care now, but when you get pushed out of your job for a younger guy and you are spending your life savings trying to fight it in court. Where do you go to for a lifetime of hard earned elderly survival money? Social security will no longer be available.

What about all the elderly and US veterans currently receiving legal benefits?

https://thehill.com/opinion/5148448-elon-musk-targeting-social-security/

[Darklydarkened]

This is historic, this is amazing, this will be the matter of history books.

The richest man in the world, who pays more tax in China than in US, who nowadays, prepares to build new production lines in India after his discussions with Modi, is creating a false narrative, astroturfing his breaindead maga youth and tries to curtail every sort of social infrastructure that were established to make US, what it is today.

And there are millions of Americans, who will negativelly effected by all this cheering up, wheras people like Musk, who pays just 40-50 million dollars of tax from his billions of dollars of yearly income will thrive even more viciously from all this

The man literally bamboozled American society with his nonchalant, uber aggressive and utterly shameless rhetoric

I hope he does what he implies, raids Fort Nox with cybertrucks and creates complete international chaos, and respond the backlash with "But where is the gold? Gold's stolen oh my god, we found such fraud" as if he doesn't know the gold is artificial in modern finance markets.

[MisterWack]

Yes and it should worry people especially Medicaid cuts in Republican introduced funding bill in Congress. Affects millions of children, 2 in 3 nursing home residents, 30 million workers, our nation’s healthcare infrastructure, and more.

Call your Congressman and tell them to vote against it! Voice your concerns! Make your voice heard!

In the 2024 election, people claimed I didn’t vote on the merit of fellow Americans and I voiced concerns they’d kill Social Security / Medicaid which Republican voters said “You are lying, they’ll never do that”…. Well it is proposed by Elon Musk and introduced by Republican Majority. Are we great again yet? Surely sounds like Hell.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

I'm not worried about mine.

They're only "coming" after those fraudulent accounts.

And, I'm glad they will.

[chrissykerdock]

why would he do that ss is only good for last paycheck and who's working currently

[sawno]

For the majority of you no, if its incorrectly given to you then yes. He's trying to clean up mistakes or corruption, so as long as your in the clear your fine. If they can't verify it I can imagine they'd take some extra steps to verify it but thats pretty normal. I am not from the same country and this year my previous employer filed an audit on mine, so now they will audit if I am genuinely still in need of it. I'm not worried about it since I haven't sat still trying to improve my health and as a result I got even stronger documentation than last time.

[Spencer10]

Lets be honest the richest man in the world is the poster boy of a system that works against regular people. Just like Trump. They do not worry about rent or food bills. They live in another world than most people. To put your trust in people like this is the height of stupidity. They are afraid we will rise up some day and challenge this system that benefits them... so they keep you busy just trying to pay the bills so they can play their games.

[MicahRaine]

There have been several studies dating back years showing that social security is a massive scam and the younger generations will never benefit from it.

Also I'm less worried about Elon Musk (who's team is exposing widespread fraud at the highest levels) and more worried about the IRS. . . they owe me roughly a thousand dollars.

[Mac-One]

I agree, The IRS is not for you but for how much they can get from you.

[Surely]

As the disclaimer says. This is a personal opinion!

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[northerngal]

Of course he is. This is one of the biggest areas of spending in the USA budget. Plus a Capitalist like him cannot stand Social Security... wonder when he will go after defense spending? Probably never.

[emeraldsaphire]

Time is coming for your social security. It's literately a Ponzi scheme. The biggest financial fraud probably ever.

[Asker]

You didn't do your own homework.

[Anonymous]

Your social security has been spent in Ukraine and elsewhere...

[Asker]

You're gonna want to fact check yourself there LOL

[Opinion Owner]

Big Balls already has.

[Darklydarkened]

You people just don't even understand what a state budget is. Helps on Ukraine is minute compared to American state budget

And worse, this guy doesn't even pay a fraction of his obscene income back to US society as tax, instead, he wants tax cuts from it

But he wants cuts in already struggling government institutions like NIH, because he finds "unnecessary spending"

As if unnecessary spending always happens

The shamelessness in him is so high, he was trying to argue that, he could only retire 10.000 people a day, because documents are held at a limestore mine, as if that's some weird ass backwards nonsense.

The reason those documents held in that mine, is that it was capable of managing retirements of the public cervants just fine, and spending money to renovate it was unnecessary, but he created a chaos and a crisis, then accused the already established and functioning system of being incompetent

[Mac-One]

Also spent for illegals who never paid into it to qualify.

[exitseven]

No, I think having the IRS in my business is a bigger threat than Elon Musk could ever be,

[Max3205]

Elon did say that he will be going after really super old people that have been dead for decades, and are still collecting.

[exitseven]

@Max3205 The rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.

[Mac-One]

Not if you are legal and legally entitled to it.

[Ariesman81]

Trump is removing taxes on Social Security income. I think we'll be fine.

[Asker]

People on social security do not make enough to pay taxes, there never were taxes.

[Anonymous]

No he’s not. His mission is to find fraud, like people getting SSI who have been dead for decades.

[Asker]

Stop listening to people and do your own research. Wake up.

[goaded]

Name one person "getting SSI who [has] been dead for decades."
If there was an example, Musk could have named them; dead people have no expectation of privacy.

No names? Lie.

[MrTaboo]

No. He used to own PayPal. If he was corrupt, he would've done it then.

[Dargil]

Only if you are over 115.

[FunkyMonkee]

Absolutely not!!

[Fireguy17]

No, why would he care?

[Agape93]

Probably

[Pterodon]

Nope