To Save Your Retirement, Vote for Amanda Stuck in Wisconsin’s Eighth District

Republicans Want to Gut Your Retirement and Mine

The Republican Party has begun its campaign to gut your retirement and mine. The first step is the proposal to cut Social Security in the current administration’s budget, but don’t be fooled. This is only the first step.

We Can Easily Make Social Security Solvent Without Cutting Benefits

Most of us depend on Social Security for all or part of our income in retirement, and most of us have worked all our lives and paid into the system because we were promised that it would be there for us when we retired. The Social Security system has problems, but they can be solved fairly easily for the next 75 years.

We have to make the system solvent in order to keep our promise that it will be there for all of us when we retire. In making Social Security solvent, we should rely on two principles:

1. Social Security is an earned benefit. It is not some sort of magic “entitlement.” It is a benefit for which most people have worked all their lives.
2. We Americans recognize that a promise is a promise, and we do not duck our responsibilities

Republicans Don't Believe That a Promise is a Promise

But the Republicans don’t believe in either of these principles. They don’t understand that we should receive a benefit for which we have worked all our lives, and they don’t believe that a promise should be a promise.  They think that it is ok for them to gut your retirement and mine in order to give tax breaks to make very rich people even richer.  It is not just our president. Other Republicans like Mitch McConnell are falling in line, and Amanda Stuck’s opponent supports a plan to “save” Social Security by pegging the payment to the poverty line, thereby reducing most people’s the Social Security benefits.

People Should Be Paid the Benefits They Have Earned

We Democrats oppose cutting the benefits of hard-working people in order to make rich people richer. We know that there are better ways to save Social Security for all of us. We know that in America, a promise is a promise and should not be broken. We know that Social Security is an earned benefit and that people should be paid what they are owed.

Elect Amanda Stuck to Save Your Retirement

We cannot allow Republicans to break the promises that we have made or to deny to Americans the money that they have worked for and earned. The only way to protect retirement security for all of us is to elect Democrats like Amanda Stuck to Congress to protect the benefits that we have earned.

So, the choice is clear. You can vote to deny earned benefits to hard-working people like you in order to make rich people richer, or you can vote for Amanda Stuck for Congress in the Wisconsin’s eighth district.