Earned Benefits Quotes

Taxing Social Security like other pensions would show that it is an earned right and help hold off proposals to cut benefits.

With more than half of the American workforce without private pension coverage, Social Security provides economic certainty within a system that is fair, equitable, and easy to understand. You work hard, pay into the system, and the federal government makes a promise to pay back your earned benefits when you retire. It's that simple.

I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.

Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.

Veterans should not have to fight for the benefits that they have already earned.

Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

I will continue to work diligently in Congress to ensure that our veterans receive the benefits and care that they have earned and deserve.

Veterans of this nation are special. Their benefits were earned on the battlefield.

Veterans should not lose the benefits they've earned through their service due to circumstances out of their control.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.