{"id":133143,"date":"2026-05-07T14:30:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=133143"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:30:34","slug":"favorite-tweets-37317","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=133143","title":{"rendered":"Favorite tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">@saylordocs Social Security and Medicare contributions were never intended to be transfer payments to other people.  These were sold as retirement programs for your own personal benefit.  But the caps were taken off of the Medicare portion so that people keep paying for others&#8217; benefits.<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; Mr. Lucky (@Mr_Lucky101)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mr_Lucky101\/status\/2052241083149795837\">May 7, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom http:\/\/twitter.com\/Mr_Lucky101<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@saylordocs Social Security and Medicare contributions were never intended to be transfer payments to other people. These were sold as retirement programs for your own personal benefit. But the caps were taken off of the Medicare portion so that people keep paying for others&#8217; benefits. &mdash; Mr. Lucky (@Mr_Lucky101) May 7, 2026 from http:\/\/twitter.com\/Mr_Lucky101 via &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=133143\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Favorite tweets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-133143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133144,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133143\/revisions\/133144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133143"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=133143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}