Fox's Mark Levin floats changing the age for Social Security and Medicare eligibility
Levin: “These programs, one day, need to be reformed, and that doesn’t mean slashing them. Maybe it means changing the age … We’ve talked about it before. It’s been talked about by Paul Ryan, it’s been talked about by Reagan.”
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Fox's Mark Levin floats changing the age for Social Security and Medicare eligibility
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From the February 8, 2023, edition of Westwood One's The Mark Levin Show
MARK LEVIN (HOST): I told you he would lie about Social Security and Medicare, and I told you everything else he would do, but he lied even beyond that. And here in part is what he said. He was booed by the Republicans. And, of course, legal analysts and media analysts were very upset that the Republicans spoke out.
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So today, he's out there doing it again because he doesn't have anybody to boo him or confront him or challenge him. What they're talking about is Rick Scott put out a proposal, which had a whole list of things including Social Security and Medicare reform. And so, he talks about sun setting these laws and so forth and so on, but he wasn't talking about Social Security, Medicare, so they wrap those into it. And they twist it and turn it and they lie.
In fact, the Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy said, even prior to this speech, no, we're not going to do this. You can hear the Republicans. You can even hear Biden himself say, I'm not saying most. I'm not even saying, you know, a significant number of you. Then why say it? Because the speech writers put it in there to try and lie to the American people.
These programs, one day, need to be reformed, and that doesn't mean slashing them. Maybe it means changing the age, and so forth, and grandfathering in everybody who's eligible over the next 5 or 10 years, so nobody's really affected in any significant way. I don't know. We've talked about it before. It's been talked about by Paul Ryan, it's been talked about by Reagan, it's -- but it's the Democrats who keep taking money out of Medicare.