re: #48 gamark

It has a lot to do with the general budget. There is no “lock box”. SS funds intermingle with general funds and the SS surplus offsets the national budget to make it look better than it otherwise would. Smoke and mirrors. Bread and circuses. “Debt ceiling”? What a joke. It is meaningless.

But SS is self-funding, it doesn’t get paid for from the general budget. Cutting SS does nothing to fix the general budget.