Sherrod Brown actually said...

"That does nothing to redistribute money to lower levels; it just, quote-unquote, 'fixes Social Security' by taking a little from the upper-income."

"The cash benefit is still far too low for a long-time, low-income worker, and that is clearly a big part of the problem here."

"We need to think more holistically about how we actually change our culture of debt, consumption, savings, housing policy, the tax code."

"To me, it is a moral issue and an economic issue."