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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) sparked a heated debate during a Senate discussion after calling Social Security a “scam” and questioning how the system is funded. Tuberville argued that Americans’ money goes into the federal system and comes back out through government spending, comparing it to a “Ponzi scheme.”

The remarks have reignited discussions over Social Security funding, retirement benefits, government spending, and the future of the program. Watch the full context of Tuberville’s comments and the reaction surrounding his controversial statement.

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00:00Americans money has been going in the front door of the federal government and then going
00:05right out the back door.
00:06Your dollar doesn't grow and it doesn't come back to you or your children.
00:12It's a big gigantic blown up Ponzi scheme.
00:17I'm on the floor to talk about a big scam in our country.
00:21It's happening in broad daylight before our very eyes.
00:27Politicians here in Washington know what's going on, but they refuse to speak about it.
00:32They're too worried about getting reelected in most cases.
00:36And they think telling the truth about the scam will hurt their chances in staying in
00:40power.
00:41Well, here's the sad truth.
00:43For decades now, the American people have paid into Social Security each month without having
00:49any idea if they will ever see a cent of the money that they put in.
00:54Again, since being signed into law in 1935 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, our great president,
01:04Americans money has been going in the front door of the federal government and then going
01:08right out the back door.
01:10Your dollar doesn't grow and it doesn't come back to you or your children.
01:16It's a big gigantic blown up Ponzi scheme.
01:21And the last time I looked, people who do Ponzi schemes usually go to jail.
01:27Every American is forced to participate in it.
01:30You got no choice.
01:32You don't have a say of the matter.
01:34Whether you're 17 or 67, more than 6% of your paycheck is taken out by the federal government
01:41to pay for Social Security, your so-called retirement.
01:47That might not seem like a lot, but to me, an American struggling to live paycheck to paycheck,
01:52that 6% is a huge sacrifice.
01:56Americans have been paying into this program for years, only, only to see a fraction of
02:03what they have been promised.
02:04It really makes you wonder how this government approved Ponzi scheme is legal.
02:11The truth is that this retirement savings, this savings program is 100% broke.
02:18It's absolutely broke.
02:21Just like our federal government of $40 trillion in debt.
02:26The Social Security Fund is projected to run out of its reserve money in 2032, just a few
02:33years from now.
02:34When these funds are depleted, senior citizens could see a cut in their monthly check up to
02:4222 to 25% of their benefits.
02:45On average, that's $500 a month.
02:48If the federal government were to try and save the program, it would most likely mean that
02:55your taxes would skyrocket.
02:5938% of mandatory spending within the federal budget annually goes toward failing Social Security
03:06program.
03:08Yes, the money you send up here, 38% a year goes to Social Security, not the money that
03:15you already sent, because guess what?
03:17It's been sent, it's been spent, and scammed out of our system.
03:24It's not there.
03:26In other words, almost 1.6 trillion every year of your taxpayer dollars is being spent on
03:31a program that is currently scheduled to go bankrupt in six years.
03:37So basically, the money you send up here has been spent and now is nowhere to be found.
03:45The Social Security program is the single largest program we're wasting our tax dollars on.
03:53Biggest.
03:54It's a mind-boggling program to say the least, but don't worry, it gets worse.
04:00After decades of having Social Security taken out, millions of Americans had to pay taxes
04:07when they go to collect their Social Security.
04:09Yep.
04:09You're exactly right.
04:11After you pay taxes and you put it in there for savings for many years and you get it
04:15back, guess what?
04:16You got to pay taxes on that.
04:19Because our former president and former senator, Mr. Joe Biden, when he was a senator in 1983,
04:25he got the great idea of, let's tax Social Security.
04:30Heh.
04:32What a scam.
04:33Depending on which tax bracket you're in, between 50% to 85% of your benefits can be taxed
04:41by the federal government.
04:42Last year, I introduced the Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act to stop the unjust double
04:49tax on Social Security benefits.
04:52Thankfully, the one big beautiful bill included senior deductions.
04:57That significantly reduced federal taxes for the majority of retirees, thank goodness.
05:03In a day and age where the cost of living is skyrocketing and our seniors should not experience
05:09a second tax on their Social Security when they're already paid tax on that money.
05:15If we must keep this outdated program, the least we can do is to ensure that senior citizens
05:22Americans don't get slapped with a double tax.
05:26Despite what millions of Americans have been tricked into believing, it turns out that paying
05:32into Social Security does not entitle you to a fixed pot of money.
05:39Everybody thinks, we're going to pay in, I'm going to get a lot of money at the end.
05:42Again, that sad reality is that many Americans won't see a cent of the money that they paid
05:49into Social Security.
05:51Basically, Social Security is just, folks, another tax.
05:55A tax on both employees and employers since most companies have to match the 6% that their
06:02employees are forced to pay out of their paychecks.
06:05Yeah, they double the tax.
06:09This is socialism.
06:11It's highway robbery.
06:13And for the last 60 years, we've known this program was going under, but no one up here
06:19has been willing to fix it.
06:21In fact, Social Security is known as the third rail of politics that no one up here is allowed
06:27to talk about.
06:28Don't talk about Social Security because we don't have a solution and we might lose our jobs.
06:34In fact, Social Security is known as that third rail because nobody will touch it.
06:41It's taboo to talk about Social Security.
06:44But my question is why?
06:46Why is that?
06:47We work for the people.
06:48We work for the taxpayers.
06:50We've known this program was going bankrupt for years.
06:54It's been a disaster since day one.
06:57When millions of Americans are going to reach retirement age soon, we better look out.
07:02Right.
07:02They're expecting to get their money.
07:05They're expecting to get the money that they paid into Social Security for years.
07:09They're going to get screwed over with nothing left and this is going to be a serious problem.
07:16Social Security scam doesn't stop there.
07:19As you know, Joe Biden welcomed tens of millions of illegals into this country with open arms.
07:25They said that our borders are closed.
07:27Yep.
07:28After they let 20 million people in that shouldn't be here.
07:31These aren't nice people either, most of them.
07:34Many of them are rapists, murderers, drug lords and gang members.
07:37Well, it turns out the Biden administration and Orlando Mayorkas, our great Homeland Security
07:44director, they weren't just letting these legals into our country without vetting them.
07:49They were handing them Social Security and Medicaid benefits as they were coming into
07:54the door.
07:55Welcome to the United States of America.
07:57We're broke, but we're going to give you money.
08:00We're going to give you a Social Security number.
08:02It's no wonder we're broke.
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