Benefits Quote by Rand Paul

Means-tested benefits have one incredible feature in that they impose huge poverty traps.

— Guy Standing

Let's protect our social security and Medicare.

— Donald Trump

It's clear that means testing can direct limited resources to the elderly in need and achieve better results in poverty alleviation.

— Carrie Lam

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

— Steve Israel

The test is always how we treat the poor.

— Robert Frost

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then…

— Steve Israel

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up…

— Bennie Thompson

Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments.

— Tom Coburn

We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their…

— Robert Reich

Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.

— Kofi Annan

Both the federal government and the states should go ahead and soak the rich to reduce inequality and raise money for health care, child…

— Annie Lowrey

We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future…

— Dennis Hastert