There are no tax increases that are going to help our economy grow.
And we all want a strong social safety net. We are a very compassionate society.
Within the next 10 years, the cash deficit in Social Security will be about $1.3 trillion.
So increasing taxes on the rich is a tenth as effective if we would actually just return our economy to a normal economy.
For anybody to say that Social Security is solvent to the year 2035 is just--I just think that is a false statement.
I do not see any way we start solving these problems until we are honest with the American people in terms of the depth of the problem.
The Social Security Trust Fund in total, on a consolidated basis, has no value to the Federal Government.
If we would just return to a normal economy, which we had in 2007, when revenue generation was 18.5 percent of our economy, that would add a...
Government-run programs, government-funded programs run way too slow.
If what we have does not work, why would we want to pour more in?
I think we all share the same goal here. We all want a prosperous America.