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I am not in favor of fixing Social Security by raising or eliminating the so called tax max on payroll taxes.

Saving for retirement is our job as individuals. Fixing retirement programs is your job as members of Congress, and I respectfully suggest that we all get down to business.

How much worse does this problem have to get before both political parties step up to the plate and fix Social Security?

We have to start thinking about things from a generational perspective.

A system that is in worse shape than Detroit's pension systems is not fundamentally sound.

Social Security is doing a lot of things not very well.

You would be more open to revenues perhaps than you would be if you did not have the Medicare problem.

I think the libertarian argument cuts both ways. I am all for cutting government. Is this the first thing we should cut? I don't really think so.

Whether to alter the terms of Federal retirement benefits, salaries, or other terms of employment is up to Congress to decide.

disability covers a range of infirmities that can go from a slight impairment of your ability to work to a total impairment.

Congress has to be very aware that it is the ones that makes the decisions.

I believe the effects would be larger on the small business end than they would be for individuals working for other employers.

If people don't feel a program is fair, then the political support does tend to fall apart.

Like all taxes on earnings, Social Security taxes reduce the award from work, which tends to decrease how much people work.

I believe that we need to concentrate on economy-level goals of work, saving, investment, the things that will strengthen the economy.

It is the chasing of returns that is driven by the fact that a high return is imposed on them by legislatures.

What happens in most States is the legislature will set the discount rate that they want to use for the pension.

I don't believe I have said that public pensions are the cause of the problems.

The fiscal crisis at the State and local level has many causes. The proximate cause is the significant economic recession, from which the U.S. economy still struggles to recover.

In a weak economy, where you are facing financial instability, higher income people... have the greater ability to weather that.

Obviously, a large portion of the debt that has been issued and is currently being issued by the United States is held by overseas investors, including China.

We have got billionaires that aren't paying any taxes all over this country, we have everyone sheltering money offshore...

the average rate of tax collection has been roughly 18 percent of GDP. Whether we like it or not, whether we think it should be higher or not, it is a reality and this reality is nonnegotiable.

resolving these issues in the near term helps both individuals, businesses and financial markets have confidence in the activities they are undertaking.