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this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2023
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Reposting from another thread:
Social security has been 10-15 years away from being insolvent for 80 years. It will always be 10-15 years away from being insolvent because of the way it's calculated.
When the CBO or whoever scores it they can predict certain things like the number of recipients, the size of their payments, and inflation. They aren't allowed to take into account things that Congress may (but definitely will) do in the future, like raising the cap on social security taxes roughly with inflation. It went up from $160200 in 2023 to $168600 in 2024. This is a rare bipartisan, uncontroversial thing. Congress almost always follows the SSA recommendation exactly.
It would be more accurate to say "if the social security cap stays at $168600 for 10 years, social security will be insolvent."
The people pushing this bullshit know it's bullshit. They do it to make people think they'll never get social security so they can get enough voters on board with killing it, like they've been trying to do for 88 years.
Don't fall for it.
They spend more as they get in, it will run out. No amount of tomfoolery will change that.
No.
"Tomfoolery"? Step away from the idiot box, gramps.
Sure granny, go believe them,I'm sure those 2 trillion arnt in some loss leading 1% government bonds
Have you not been paying attention to what the Fed has been doing? Pardon my language but shoving cash up my asshole earns more than 1% these days.
In 2022, before most of the rate hikes, the trust fund earned $66.4 billion. This year's high, and hopefully very temporary, interest rates aside, it'll usually be around 2.5-3%.
I'm not sure what you think loss leading means or why you're using it here, but governments storing reserve money earmarked for a specific purpose in their own bonds isn't unusual or a bad thing. Should they stuff it under a mattress earning 0%? Should they risk it in the markets? Unsecured domestic bonds? Foreign bonds?
Sorry, I must admit I'm not from the us and I may have been more talking/afraid for my local governments funds.... Thanks for the great explanation tho!
So pissy you can't even type straight? Breathe, tiger. Go touch grass.
Now you're cheating, cause that would be good advise always.