We know this is coming really crappy to talk about when you're out there campaigning because God knows we don't want to tell our voters the actual truth of how hard and how difficult what's coming at us is. But it's math, it's real. Raise the cap on $400,000 and up and you only cover about a quarter of this. You still double senior poverty. And that's the morality of this place. And look, it's not Republican or Democrat. It's demographics. We got old. We only have a fraction of the workers. (23:37–23:45)
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Asserts that raising the Social Security tax cap on incomes over $400,000 would only cover about a quarter of the shortfall.
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