Kent Conrad said...

It lifts the bottom. It asks those of us at the top to take a little less of an increase than we might have expected.

It is really very important. You know, what so make stakeholders told us is you have got to broaden this thing out.

I would say to you, as I looked at this, I saw Social Security as the bedrock.

The bottom 20 percent of earners get a 35-percent increase over what is scheduled, a more than 60-percent increase over ...