claim: "we bring in enough tax revenue to service our debt, pay for medicare and medicaid and social security, and then still have about $300 (billion) or $400 billion left over."
author: amy kremer
evidence_1: in a 2011 appearance on the colbert report, kremer said the u.s. federal  government raised "enough tax revenue to service our debt, pay for medicare  and medicaid and social security, and then still have about $300 [billion] or $400  billion left over." politifact.com rated this statement "half true", noting that  kremer's ...
evidence_2: "we bring in enough tax revenue to service our debt, pay for medicare and  medicaid and social security, and then still have about $300 (billion) or $400  billion left over." — politifact national on friday, may 20th, 2011. false. the abe  fortas debacle of 1968 counts, with an asterisk. the colbert report. jeffrey  toobin.
evidence_3: in a 2011 appearance on the colbert report, kremer said the u.s. federal  government raised "enough tax revenue to service our debt, pay for medicare  and medicaid and social security, and then still have about $300 [billion] or $400  billion left over." politifact.com rated this statement "half true", noting that  kremer's ...
evidence_4: jun 28, 2010 ... [3] using cbo's august 2008 projections as a benchmark, we calculate that the  changed economic outlook accounts for over $400 billion of the deficit ... in social  security, medicare, medicaid, and interest costs, and dismisses the significance  of weak revenues in general and the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts in ...
evidence_5: dec 24, 2016 ... barron's rx for u.s. economic growth: cut $8.6 trillion in federal spending and  balance the budget without raising taxes. ... there is a relatively small cut of $170  billion in retirement benefits paid by social security, and more than $2 trillion  from disability payouts and other health-care programs.