Kent Conrad: “Senator Conrad, the disparity between taxes on capital income and taxes on wages has grown larger and larger.”

The consequence of failure has to be made clear.

I think there is just a tremendous opportunity here, and I really applaud the two of you for doing this in a bipartisan way.

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.