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Comment by rattlesnakedave

3 hours ago

Actually, the even more serious budget analyses than the ones you've read include Social Security

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jjk166  1 hour ago

Because the social security surplus was used to fund the treasury instead of being put towards social security. The 1990s budget surplus that became the Bush tax cuts? Yeah that was the money that was supposed to pay for social security.

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