Political Quotes

“My last board, and then I intend to yield to my friend. Look, this is the chart I was going to end with. Remember how we have been talking about what is happening when we start to have more deaths than births? Understand, that 18-year number, it doesn't just stop there. You basically have a society, as you get into 2041, 2043, we continue to fall more and more. We will have a population decline in the United States. Understand the responsibility for someone like me on Ways and Means, the responsibility of all of us here, we have promises to keep. We made promises about Medicare. We made promises about Social Security. If you understand the demographics are ahead of us, you understand the difficulty, and it is why so many of the proposals--``If we just raise this tax''--and when we finally get the actual scoring on it, it doesn't actually work. It doesn't stop us from hearing it quoted all the time, but when you actually read the actuarial reports, the math doesn't work. This is us. This is our country. It is continuing. It doesn't have to be dystopian. I come back, what is the single biggest thing you could do that is both moral and incredibly great economics and a major bend on the debt?…”