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Luke Messer on Social Security
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Use Social Security to restrict aid to illegal immigrants
Billions of dollars in refundable tax credits are paid to immigrants through a loophole. Child Tax Credits can be claimed without a Social Security Number by using an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, which is issued to individuals regardless
of immigration status. To close this senseless loophole and protect U.S. taxpayers, I filed legislation that would require individuals to have a Social Security Number valid for employment before they can claim the Child Tax Credit.
Source: The Star Press on 2018 Indiana Senatorial race
, Oct 28, 2017
Let retirees earn more
We're working on legislation that would double the allowance for those who happen to receive Social Security. Essentially, if you take Social Security and you hit the earnings imitations, then you're taxed on that.
Right now, we have a workforce shortage, we need to encourage people to stay in the workforce as long as they want to. To me, it's a commonsense way to help grow the economy and to encourage people to stay active.
Source: The Star Press on 2018 Indiana Senate race
, Sep 21, 2017
Rated 0% by ARA, indicating a pro-privatization stance.
Messer scores 0% Alliance for Retired Americans
Scoring system for 2014: Ranges from 0% (supports privatization and other market-based reforms) to 100% (supports keeping federal control over Trust Fund and Social Security system).
About ARA (from their website, www.RetiredAmericans.org):
The Alliance for Retired Americans is a nationwide organization, founded in May 2001, with now over 4.2 million members working together to make their voices heard in the laws, policies, politics, and institutions that shape our lives. The mission of the Alliance for Retired Americans is to ensure social and economic justice and full civil rights for all citizens so that they may enjoy lives of dignity, personal and family fulfillment and security.
- Alliance members visit the polls in record numbers. We use the power of our membership and our Congressional Voting Record to educate and mobilize seniors to elect leaders committed to improving the lives of retirees and older Americans.
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We are effectively warding off cuts to our most important social programs like Social Security and Medicare. Our Human Chain Against the Chained CPI events in the summer of 2013 took place in more than 50 cities and mobilized support for stopping this cut to earned Social Security benefits.
- We blocked the privatization of Social Security with our Social Security "Truth Truck" delivering 2.1 million petitions to Members of Congress and other tactics.
- The Alliance makes its voice heard on the issues that matter not just to current retirees, but to all Americans who hope to retire one day. We were a leading voice in recent debates considering changes to Medicare, like replacing guaranteed benefits with a voucher system, and remain so in 2014.
Source: ARA lifetime rating on incumbents of 113th Congress 14_ARA on Jan 1, 2013
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