David Schweikert: “Social Security faces a 39 trillion dollar shortfall over…”

“I want to go through these fairly quickly because I want to end on something that's a little more optimistic than some of these more dystopian numbers. This is Social Security faces a 39 trillion dollar shortfall over the next 30 years. 36 trillion if subtracting the trust fund. So let's just so functionally what we're saying here is this is income, payroll taxes and benefits.” (24:53–24:59)

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