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Greg Casar: “We can save [Social Security], but maybe we can expand it…”

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

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Podcast Discussion with Congressman Greg Casar on Progressive Strategies and Cultural Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 13:03

… for you or me and way higher for a school teacher and for a sanitation worker and a custodian and H VAC maintenance guy than it is on those guys. We can save [Social Security], but maybe we can expand it and make your Social Security check higher and pull every senior in this country out of poverty, literally. If we just say those big guys have to just literally pay the same rate that we pay, that's not the message. (13:03–13:11)

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Asserts that expanding Social Security could potentially lift every senior in the U.S. out of poverty.

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