Kent Conrad: “last week I traveled to Grand Forks, ND, to organize and present testimony at a regional hearing of the Base Realignment…”

Social Security's financial challenge affects nearly our entire society, and the solutions will require a broad-based approach.

If we are going to provide tax incentives for people to have retirement savings, then it should not be used as a piggy bank to pay for other things.

If you are really going to relieve me of the administrative burden, if you are going to really relieve me of the liability, if you are going to really relieve me of the cost other than the payroll transfer.

I do, and I made that argument to the commission, and others on the commission made some of the points that you are making now.