When the security forces cut the lights in one street, some enterprising residents managed somehow to bring them back on again.
And, they quickly agreed to the Social Security tax cut as part of the two-year extension of the Bush tax cuts.
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Critics say the plan guts Medicare and Medicaid and puts younger workers at risk of having their Social Security benefits cut.
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He also vowed to neither privatize Social Security nor cut the benefits.
Instead, many employers will be using the 2012 tables come January but will omit the two-percentage-point Social Security tax cut in effect this year.
Interestingly enough, opinion polls taken at the time showed that the Social Security tax cut was the only part of the package that the public did not support.
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The one-year, 2.0 percentage point Social Security tax cut was enacted a year ago as part of a package that also extended 99-week unemployment benefits for a year, and postponed the expiration of the Bush income tax cuts for two years.
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How can they get the top 1 percent of Americans a tax cut large enough to essentially fix Social Security and then turn around and say, "Oh, we have no choice but to cut Social Security benefits"?
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And an economic reverse could push up social-security outlays and cut tax revenues as well repeating past bitter experience.
Back in 1978 the centre-right prime minister of the day, Raymond Barre, raised social-security contributions and cut hospital spending.
Most important is the expiration of the 2% Social Security payroll tax cut.
The range of Devens inmates also includes a cadre of low-security prisoners who cut the lawns and do other groundskeeping work.
Payments for food assistance and other income security benefits are cut, and Congress really does, after years of threats, cut payments to Medicare physicians.
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The various proposals floating around to cut Social Security are scary enough for older Americans.
That became, in the mouths of Capitol Hill Democrats, this commission wants to cut Social Security.
Two parties, one Establishment determined to raise taxes and cut Social Security and Medicare without reforming any of them.
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On the other side of the ledger, there are three ways that your Social Security benefits are being cut.
They could then (say) cut Social Security and Medicare payments and seek to blame this on the intransigence of the Republicans.
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Remarkably, in Washington, all the important people think the most pressing matter is finding ways to cut Social Security and Medicare.
We will have have to cut Social Security for anyone under 40.
Worse still, these are the very politicians who now seek to cut social security benefits already insufficient to cover the true costs of retirement and Medicare.
Hackers could bring down power plants, cause remote explosions, shut down utilities, cut off security systems, hack into important infrastructure, and the list goes on.
That would be the largest reduction in government spending in world history far more than could ever be achieved by trying to cut Social Security benefits.
He also charged that Bush has allowed the jobs of thousands of airport security screeners to be cut and has failed to prepare hospitals for bioterror attacks.
When the iPad 2 was released last year, a skirmish broke out outside a Beijing Apple Store after a man believed to be a scalper was escorted away by security after trying to cut in line.
It may have been reached in Japan, where Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi has cut the top corporate income tax rate from 48% to 41%, the highest individual rate from 65% to 50% and even slightly cut social security taxes.
When all was said and done, the can got kicked down the road into the lap of the Super Committee, after which the Grand-Scam deal to raise taxes and cut Social Security was put back into play again until the Super Committee itself stumbled over defense cuts.
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The Welfare State Establishment headquartered at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave will likely go into cardiac arrest at this suggestion since the Obama Administration already has indicated it is prepared to cut Social Security to fund its other social engineering schemes, just as it already slashed Medicare to help pay for ObamaCare.
It also cut social-security contributions, partly making up the shortfall with higher value-added tax.
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