Bernie Sanders spoke today with Diane Rehm on NPR. Part of that discussion was about Social Security.
I will fight as hard as I can to resist any cuts to social security, but furthermore, we have to expand social security benefits. Many seniors and disabled people can't make it on 12, 13, 14 thousand dollars a year. How do you do that? Very simple. Right now multi-millionaires are paying the same amount of money into the social security trust fund as somebody making $118,000 a year. If you lift the cap, and you don't have to start at 119, you begin at 250 thousand. If you do that social security will be solvent until 2061 and we can expand it.
