Gerald Weller said "the President wants to pay for these 120 new programs by dipping into the Social Security trust fund. We see the young men and women many of us know back home in our home communities, just graduating from high school, they are in college or entering the workforce and they are paying 12.6 percent of their income into the Social Security Trust Fund with little hope, many of them tell me, of ever receiving Social Security benefits. So unless we wall off the Social Security Trust Fund and stop Washington from dipping into the Social Security Trust Fund to spend on new government programs, our young people may never see Social Security. That is why it is so important that we make this change in how we budget the process." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordMarch 10, 1999

the President wants to pay for these 120 new programs by dipping into the Social Security trust fund. We see the young men and women many of us know back home in our home communities, just graduating from high school, they are in college or entering the workforce and they are paying 12.6 percent of their income into the Social Security Trust Fund with little hope, many of them tell me, of ever receiving Social Security benefits. So unless we wall off the Social Security Trust Fund and stop Washington from dipping into the Social Security Trust Fund to spend on new government programs, our young people may never see Social Security. That is why it is so important that we make this change in how we budget the process.

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Gerald Weller

Republican · Illinois

Source

govinfo.gov

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the impact of proposed government programs on the Social Security trust fund.

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