Maurice Hinchey: “we are for these tax cuts. In fact, virtually every one of these tax cuts was introduced by a Democrat. They were lifted…”

“we are for these tax cuts. In fact, virtually every one of these tax cuts was introduced by a Democrat. They were lifted from us in a transparently cynical gesture in an election year. You know this bill is not going to pass. If you thought it were, then you would have a totally different piece of legislation out here. The truth of the matter is, you have always hated Social Security, and you seek every opportunity to undermine it. That is what you are doing in this particular case by stealing money from the Social Security trust fund. If you were in the private sector, heading a corporation, and you sought to steal money out of the pension fund of that private corporation, you would be locked up. And that is what ought to happen to you in this particular context. This is wrong. It is indecent. It runs counter to everything that this Congress has stood for, and you are doing what you are doing at the expense of present and future retirees. You are not going to get away with it.”