Alaska GOP candidate Joe Miller: Social Security, Medicare are unconstitutional
The tea party candidate for U.S. Senate reiterates a common position for his party, that Social Security and Medicare should be privatized (Sharron Angle, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan also hold this position regarding the entitlements, all or part of which they’d like to see turned over to the private sector…) But Joe Miller, who’s holding a slim lead over incumbent Lisa Murkowski in the still not finished primary, took it one step further… indicating that he thinks Social Security and Medicare violate the U.S. Constitution. Watch Miller on “Face the Nation” today:
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[...] candidates who are at the least inexperienced, and at worst, the fringiest of the fringe who think Social Security is unconstitutional and continue the myth that Social Security is bankrupt, want to privatize Social Security and [...]
I live in Southern California, support the Tea Party and am retired (we have our own problems here). I cannot contribute any significant amount, however I am supporting individual candidates, not the party’s NRSC or NRC. I am tired of being discounted as a citizen.
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[...] should be “on their own” as well, Republicans believe. Some in the GOP even contend Social Security is unconstitutional. Others want to cut it or privatize it. What privatizing means is getting the government out of the [...]