Once again, fuck off Blue Anon Mother Jones

Mojo blames Trump for Social Security's looming issues.

Reality?

As I told Kuff, where I saw the link on a recent "weekend link dump":

Uhh, Social Security's problems are driven by both hands of the duopoly. No president this century of either party has made a proposal to increase the FICA income tax cap. No Congress led by either party has done that, either. 

But Biden's expanding Social Security to federal employees without adding money? That bill came from Congress, and had been kicked around by both parties since 2013

You could extend that to a lot of other things.

Let's take COLAs. Why doesn't the FICA tax cap have a COLA, like income tax brackets, or like Social Security payments?

For that matter, why didn't Pelosi COLA what turned out to be the last minimum wage increase bill, in 2007, which I called for at this site at that time?

Hell, per Mojo, why do we have a separate FICA tax?

Cuz FDR said Social Security "mustn't have a dole." And so:

Almost alone among advanced industrial societies, the United States thus defined old-age pension support not as a civil right but as a property right, and built the Social Security system on a private-insurance model.

Just like health care. 

Why did it not go to farmers and domestic workers originally? In part to cut out the self-employed, but even more, to cut out Black folks; without that, I think FDR was afraid he didn't have the votes. But it got all but 33 votes in the House and all but 6 in the Senate. As with Jews, maybe he just was that much more conservative than Eleanor. (Per Wiki's page, 65 percent of Black Americans were excluded.) 

But Mojo's duopoly-tribalist at end and that's that.