Tax the rich people. Great doesn't get you anywhere near you where you need to be. So when we get near the end of this decade, Social Security trust fund is empty. Transportation trust fund is empty. If the president got his way, we've tax maximized just to cover the shortfall in the Medicare trust fund. Where do you get the money? I will lay a marker down today. (08:08–08:12)
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Asserts that the Social Security and Transportation trust funds will be depleted by the end of the decade.
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