Kent Conrad: “We knew we were right.”

We also increase the payroll tax very modestly, from the current combined rate of 12.4 percent to 13.4 percent over 10 years.

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.

Fully 64 percent of the American people said they were worried about not having enough money for retirement.

If you had to reduce it to a word, I would reduce it to 'globalization.'