Welcome to Rand Paul Says The Darndest Things: ’90s Edition.
In the late 1990s, Paul — then a simple ophthalmologist and president of Kentucky Taxpayers United — appeared on several episodes “Kentucky Tonight,” a roundtable-style show on public television. He talked about the elderly dying at the hands of Medicare rationing; the need to privatize Social Security, which he called “a Ponzi scheme;” and the rights of the government to invest in racist companies.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=124111