"You pay it in, you earn money in investment, and then you get the money out, right?"
"It is literally more like you have a piece of paper that says $20 and you are saying I have got 20 bucks."
"This would literally turn at least a good chunk of Social Security into more of a general welfare program."
"It was never intended as a welfare program; correct?"
"What he wants to do is increase people's taxes to basically about 57 percent."
"Back then it is kind of hard to get the exact number of workers versus beneficiaries."
"I would warn you trying to raise marginal tax rates to the extent you want to is going to really harm economic growth."
"Well again, anybody who has just hit like $100,000, I mean the maximum."
"The trouble is there is no Reagans or Tip O'Neills in Washington right now."
"At what point do you raise marginal tax rates up to the point where you literally harm economic growth?"
"Government is not that smart. I mean honestly, $7.5 billion. We have seven charging stations."