Here's Chris Christie's Winning Message: Cut Social Security!
Fox's Shannon Bream asked Chris Christie yesterday how he plans to sell Social Security cuts to voters.
"Well, you sell it to people because in 2034, Shannon, if nothing is done, then there will be an automatic, by law, 24% cut in Social Security benefits. So I want every Social Security recipient out there right now, who intends to still be receiving those benefits going forward, to see what a 24% cut in their benefits would mean. We need to look at all the different options to try to fix Social Security."
BUT BUT BUT.....
"We do not need to look at raising taxes. We have plenty of taxes right now in this country. But we need to look at things like do the extraordinarily wealthy need to collect Social Security? Do we really need to have Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk collecting Social Security, and others that are very, very wealthy?
Of course. Republicans would rather cut off their right arm than raise taxes on on their wealthiest donors! But a few points, Chris.
Exactly how many billionaires are collecting Social Security, and how much are they actually collecting? Because the payouts are capped, and this is just a right-wing red herring.