But to me, the important thing is, is that for middle class families that their tax burden is not increased and that we also don't cut Medicare and Social Security. This is somewhere where I really differ from my opponent, Ted Cruz...has consistently and spent really his entire career working to cut Social Security, working to hurt Medicare, even privatized that. He's called Social Security a Ponzi scheme. Well, you know, I've met a lot of Texans who rely on these programs, and I won't allow those programs to go away. (04:48–04:56)
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Asserts that Ted Cruz has worked to cut Social Security and Medicare, and to privatize them.
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