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Monday, February 05, 2018

Today in Disgusting People

From the "family" party, this little gem:

A childcare plan being discussed by Ivanka Trump and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) would require parents to use their Social Security for maternity leave and then put off retirement in the future.

A Politico report published on Sunday explained that Rubio and the president’s daughter had recently been in discussions about how to provide paid family leave to Americans.

The report noted that one of the most popular Republican solutions for funding paid leave is to have parents cut into their Social Security savings. The parents would then be forced to postpone retirement for that same amount of time.

So, the president's favorite piece of ass and a complete nonentity who thinks he's presidential material are figuring out another way to screw Americans. Of course, cutting into Social Security is the Republicans' favorite way to pay for everything. Whatever happened to the idea of employers granting maternity leave as part of the benefits package? Or do we no long give employees benefits? (I guess they figure having a job is benefit enough.)

Say, Marco and Ivanka -- why don't you talk to the Kochs? I'm sure they'd be happy to cover the cost out of the tax cuts your boss just gave them. (Oh, wait, they used a big chunk of it paying off Paul Ryan.)

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