Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Saturday that one of his top priorities, once he takes control of the chamber’s Social Security Subcommittee in January, will be to lift the cap on taxable income that funds the program and increase benefit payments by at least $2400 per year.

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I fear this mindset ignores the many elderly people living in dire poverty and precarity, forced to work until their deaths or too ill to do even that. It seems completely counter to the working class solidarity that we desparately need to shift blame for our woes from the ruling capitalist class to the elderly in general.

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