Means-testing Quotes

People get out ahead of themselves in debt with spending on all of their desires. But if you learn to live pretty simply and well, well under your means, you feel incredibly, incredibly rich, and that frees you up and gives you the option to start something new, to leave the job you're not excited about, where there might be a glass ceiling on you.

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

At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; I' m not in favour of means tests for pensioners or anybody.

We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.

The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.

Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.

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

There's nothing creative about living within your means.

The main issue is huge government spending, and my record has been trying to make sure the federal government lives within its means. I guess that's really what separates where Republicans have been from the Democrats.

You need to have a state pension that doesn't drag more and more people into means-testing each year and make it very difficult for people on low to medium term incomes to save and not see their savings clawed away.

Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't.

I'm against means-testing. I think when people pay into it, it's a trust, they ought to get it back. And I believe the benefits should keep up with inflation.

I don't overspend. I believe in always living within my means.

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. Democrats are going to want a simpler tax code.

I've said repeatedly publicly, and other members have, that until you adjust the eligibility for entitlements, do things like raising the age for Medicare for future beneficiaries. Not for those currently receiving or those about to receive. Have serious means testing for high income people. You know Warren Buffett's always complaining about not paying enough taxes. And what I'm complaining about is we're paying for his Medicare. We ought not to be providing these kinds of benefits for millionaires and billionaires.