Activity Quote by John Templeton

One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer.…

— Gail Collins

We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market…

— Warren Buffett

Most elderly are retirees with relatively low incomes. But some may possess assets, and they will be classified as poor. As such, the elderly…

— Carrie Lam

On aging societies, there is no reason why a country that has a lot of old people can't be prosperous if, during their working…

— Milton Friedman

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

Taxes aren't the way to go. They'd strangle the economy; you wouldn't create the wealth. And nothing squanders money as well as a government.…

— John Caudwell

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

— Michael Moore

I would slap a tax on plastic to encourage people to use more biodegradable things. I would also like teachers, vicars and other community…

— Alexander Armstrong

Socialist countries throughout the world love to lower retirement ages to make people prematurely dependent on the government. But we should move in the…

— Dick Morris

Instead of a universal basic income, we could have a basic income guarantee. Or, as economists prefer to call it, a negative income tax.

— Rutger Bregman

We have to adjust the age retirement for younger people. People of my income level are going to have to have their benefits means-tested.…

— Lindsey Graham

If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live under more…

— Ludwig von Mises