#social security

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending. ↗

— Mike Pence

#big government #congress #forty #forty years #fund

It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts. ↗

— Mike Pence

#allowing #fund #invest #personal #personal savings

Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right and what's wrong. ↗

— John Podesta

#care #i #i think #issue #left

I would hope that we could have this in an adult fashion and stop demagogueing the issue anytime you talk about any substantive reforms that will actually save social security and save Medicare and save the system from imploding on itself. ↗

— Ben Quayle

#actually #adult #any #anytime #could

Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion. ↗

— Ben Quayle

#been #discussion #end #filled #fund

If you got problems like unemployment, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and there's a guy that's always been there for you and for your family, then you say 'He's a nice guy. I don't know where he came from or how long he's been here, but Charlie Rangel's the man.' That's what I'm relying on. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#been #came #charlie #family #got

The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security. ↗

— Jack Reed

#crisis #dismantle #does #exist #manufacturing

What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#bush #conservative #courts #heard #i

The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut. ↗

— Mark Dayton

#benefits #cut #fine #fine print #future

For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men. ↗

— Steve Israel

#men #more #reasons #rely #retirement