#social security

Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

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Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

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Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

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There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

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To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

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We must level with the people and explain to them that Social Security will first face funding problems in 2042 that can be fixed now with changes that do not undermine and ultimately drain from the entire program. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

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We must work to stabilize Social Security. We must not gamble with our nation's social insurance program, one of our most popular and effective federal programs that has remained dependable and stable for the past 70 years. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

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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

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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

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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

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