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Greg Casar: “The folks that are going to clean this room after we leave…”

Featuring: Greg Casar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 35

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Greg Casar Criticizes Social Security Administration and Elon Musk's Involvement

Published | Video Starts at 02:57

What we mean is here, once you start making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, you just stop paying into Social Security. Do you guys know that they pay a lower rate? The people, The folks that are going to clean this room after we leave pay a rate into Social Security astronomically higher than millionaires and billionaires. Can you guys believe that? That's the actual abuse of the Social Security system. That is the real problem. And so they want to make it seem like we're the problem when they're the problem. (02:57–03:08)

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Asserts that lower-income workers pay a higher Social Security rate than millionaires and billionaires.

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