But let me just put a number that's a bit more helpful, make you optimistic. The average American retires at age 61. Obviously, Medicare doesn't even hit you till 65. So they're retiring before they're getting … If we could get the average American...to start working a year earlier...or work a year later...it would generate about $3 trillion to the U.S. economy. … would provide us unbelievable strength because the taxes on that $3 trillion would allow us to keep Medicare part a solvent to make a trust fund. (35:31–35:53)
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Asserts that changing retirement age by a year could generate $3 trillion for the U.S. economy.
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