15 Aug
2008
15 Aug
'08
7:55 p.m.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:29 PM, rod [email protected] wrote:
Rhetorically inferring that social security is a contributing factor to the budget deficit is just blatantly wrong. (Maybe I misunderstood. Were you trying to use satire to infer the opposite?) Social security pulls in much more money from payroll taxes than what is paid out in benefits. This SS surplus is figured into the budget deficit numbers, without it the budget deficit would look much worse.
This graph here illustrates your point:
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Chris