Benefits Quote by John Shadegg

Social Security, which transformed life for the elderly in this country, was 'socialist.' The concept of the 'minimum wage' was seen as a radical…

— Bernie Sanders

From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage…

— Wayne Allard

It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in…

— James Roosevelt

I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by which the…

— Bernie Sanders

Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.

— Oliver Stone

Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism.

— Stefan Heym

Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.

— Bernie Sanders

The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings, investment and hard work. That's wrong, and that's why…

— Rob Simmons

People expect those in authority to take on big problems and to solve them. We had an opportunity to reform Social Security in a…

— George W. Bush

Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long term, we…

— Paul Achleitner

Social Security was always supposed to be basically in theory an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.

— Judd Gregg

Social Security is a tax.

— Todd Akin