In case anyone still thinks there is much difference between the parties...

It was President Reagan [R] who began taxing of 50% of a single taxpayer's Social Security benefits if their income exceeded $25,000...and that income maximum was NOT indexed to inflation.

It was President Clinton [D] who moved that up to taxing of 85% of a single taxpayer's Social Security benefits if their income exceeded $34,000...and that income maximum was (again) NOT indexed to inflation.

In addition, Medicare is sneak-taxed to lower your Social Security benefits so when inflation adjustments to Social…  Read more Security increase your income and you dare have more than $25k a year to live on (average Social Security benefit is about $1800 a month), you might get 50% of that increase.