Mike Braun

We're now $34 trillion in debt. We were only $18 trillion in debt when I got here a little over 5 years ago.

We're borrowing it from our kids and grandkids.

We were only $18 trillion in debt when I got here a little over 5 years ago.

I think it's important because it's $2 trillion a year.

This place is going to swamp the system under our current policies.

We're now $34 trillion in debt.

Social Security is a vital program for all Americans. We need to be good stewards of its services and benefits.

Government, you know, where it has gone to. It has got to get back down into where people for basic questions in any government agency don't have to hang on to the phone more than a few minutes at the most.

We have never in the history of the country raised more than roughly 18 percent of our GDP in Federal revenues.

We would like your office to get back to kind of categorize to the best of your ability to do it, how much fraud would be a part of Social Security.

As Governor of Nebraska, I recognized that all Social Security benefits should be completely tax free, and that is why I worked hard to pass a historic law that would phaseout the State income tax on Social Security benefits over a period…

Sadly, we lack the political will to do anything about it.

We cannot run the biggest business in the world that way.

We need to pass the Social Security Fairness Act to eliminate these provisions.

Social Security is a vital program for all Americans. We need to be good stewards of its services and benefits.

We have never in the history of the country raised more than roughly 18 percent of our GDP in Federal revenues.

What kind of confidence does that give you that the entirety of it, with Social Security at the centerpiece, is going to be there for future generations?

Government, you know, where it has gone to. It has got to get back down into where people for basic questions in any government agency don't have to hang on to the phone more than a few minutes at the most.

You are really forced to do that as a Mayor, because if you are letting stuff like that go, people will run you down at a ballgame or some other place.

I know billions are now kind of chump change, but that is still a big figure.

We would like your office to get back to kind of categorize to the best of your ability to do it, how much fraud would be a part of Social Security.

I ran a business for 37 years, and if we ever had any kind of irregularities that would have been in the category of what you hear here, somebody gets fired.

We can't take the hit here when we are running now $2 trillion deficits, and Social Security is the biggest program we got out there.

Under this plan, a typical senior would save about $800 a year on taxes, and this would create real relief for seniors in a time of rising costs and out of control inflation.

As Governor of Nebraska, I recognized that all Social Security benefits should be completely tax free, and that is why I worked hard to pass a historic law that would phaseout the State income tax on Social Security benefits over a period…