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Greg Casar: “We can have [Social Security] expanded so we pull every…”

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

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Greg Casar's Fort Worth Rally Speech Against Trump's Iran Strikes and Billionaire Policies

Published | Video Starts at 14:53

We passed a law so that the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world have to pay the same tax rate into Social Security as a school teacher, that we could save Social Security for generations to come. And We can have [Social Security] expanded so we pull every senior out of poverty in our country for forever. and the young people here wouldn't have to send a check to their parents to keep them alive. How's that sound? And now another radical idea. (14:53–15:00)

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Asserts that expanding Social Security could eliminate senior poverty in the U.S.

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