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Originally Posted by KMA-628
Combine the sinking return rates with spiralling ratios and you have a system ready to go kaboom. Even if the last round of tax-cuts were reversed, it wouldn't save SS.
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I think you are right if we think of SS as a separately funded program. But it is not. The money goes into the general fund just like any other tax and out of the general fund just like any other outlay. Our polititians (and therefore us) decide what goes where and they can just up the outlays to SS reciprients. SS is simply in competition with military spending, national parks, education etc.. It is in no more danger of sinking than those other areas of spending and they all are funded out of the general budget.