Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama has a reputation as a controversial political figure. In particular, his trading practices on the stock market have raised eyebrows — especially given the power and influence his position affords him.
More recently, he took a number of jabs at the nation’s crumbling Social Security system — from the taxing of benefits to its dwindling funding.
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Tuberville made this fearless, blustery forecast during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing in February: “There’s going to be about 150 million people coming up here saying, ‘Where’s our damn money that we paid in? I could have put my Social Security money, 40 years in tax, in [stock] the market and probably be worth $8-to-$10 million today but the federal government wasted it.'”
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