SNAP benefits to end due to US govt shutdown

I haven't read most of the comments, don't want to get sucked into political aspect of this.

However, if you are someone.who is struggling, do a search for places offering help. I came across article that some eateries in nearest city to me are offering help, did more searching and found Santa Fe places are too. Posted article on FB.

Most are offering food for kids, but some for seniors and one place for anyone during certain hours, certain days. Also some will be collecting donations to help food banks. I suggested that if you're doing fine, patronizing these places will help fund their giving. So check out what's going on near you. I have to be in Albuquerque next week for my annual check up on my corneal implants. Plan to check if any of the places are relatively near my route. If i lived in the city we'd probably visit several in the coming weeks.

Will also go to local senior center and see if they're doing any outreach along these lines. I'm not wealthy by any means but will offer what help i can.
 

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MACKTEXAS said:
Although the wealthy pay the most federal income tax, it is payroll taxes that fund Social Security and Medicare, and those taxes fall more heavily on lower and middle-income earners.

Social Security taxes have an income cap, so higher earners pay a smaller percentage of their total income toward it, allowing the richest Americans to minimize their income tax liability and increase their wealth.
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Lifting the cap would be a great idea.
 
Yeah, I've mentioned that several times on this board in the past. The whole puppet media narrative of Wall Street and both political parties, of "We need more people (population), more births or immigration to support future Social Security payments." is a huge LIE. The obvious solution has always been to raise the maximum income rate that can be taxed for SS. Although that maximum has been incrementally raised since 1977 per average wages (now $184k), it really needs to be raised to say $1,000,000, not just $250k.

But that is the last thing wealthy people even want to hear, so they will do about anything to keep that quiet. It is the wealthy and corporations that got us into the situation, so they ought be the ones to pay for it. Instead, we get excessive illegal immigration, horrible homelessness, and high housing inflation (that financial and real estate corps really really love). A prime example of how a majority of US citizens are so easily manipulated by news media and unable to think through such issues themselves, and why I personally just want to hide from it all.
 
David777 said:
Yeah, I've mentioned that several times on this board in the past. The whole puppet media narrative of Wall Street and both political parties, of "We need more people (population), more births or immigration to support future Social Security payments." is a huge LIE. The obvious solution has always been to raise the maximum income rate that can be taxed for SS. Although that maximum has been incrementally raised since 1977 per average wages (now $184k), it really needs to be raised to say $1,000,000, not just $250k.

But that is the last thing wealthy people even want to hear, so they will do about anything to keep that quiet. It is the wealthy and corporations that got us into the situation, so they ought be the ones to pay for it. Instead, we get excessive illegal immigration, horrible homelessness, and high housing inflation (that financial and real estate corps really really love). A prime example of how a majority of US citizens are so easily manipulated by news media and unable to think through such issues themselves, and why I personally just want to hide from it all.
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Even eliminating the cap would only close half the gap. Demographics are important, whether you acknowledge that or not.
 
While the SNAP is the most pressing issue at the moment, remember SNAP is going to resume sometime, but what the bigger issue is, is the coming price increases for Obama Care that are going to be in the neighborhood of 17% in plans run by states, and perhaps 30% on plans run by the feds.

Of course the healthy, young people will do w/out (that represents 4% of the increase), some will down grade their plans to bronze moving them in high deductible policies(~$7000/year), and some will not be able to afford even that.

Then in 2027 when the $1Trillion cuts in medicaid begin we'll have a whole other group begin to deal w no health care, which will harm them, but also those providers serving them and the hospitals and clinics they work in. The rural hospital systems are going to be under enormous pressure just to find a way to carry on. Let's face it the fewer the customers that medical providers have the more expensive the care is per patient and more difficult it will be to maintain even what we have now.

You know people will suffer w/out SNAP, and there are some resources available to fill the gap with charity, but what about health care? How can we collect canned health care (no jars or perishables pls), drop it at a collection point, to be redistributed to those w/out?


It's us against the billionaires!!!
 
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The nonsense angers me too @OneEyedDiva , one thing I'm seeing in the area where I live is an outpouring of people that are expressing their concern and making donations to help people that need help...the country is angry.
 
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