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Sam Buffington's avatar

The funding shortfall that is forecast can easily be solved by taking off the cap on the payroll tax . It's that easy. The fund currently has a balance of approx $2.8 trillion, there is no reason why it should be allowed to run down. The other thing that would benefit the fund and would be easily done is to invest some of the excess funds in the market. Currently the fund is exclusively invested in US treasuries, at an artificially low interest rate.

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Steve Greenberg's avatar

Keep on plugging away at it. Maybe we can prevent the people who have bought our government from ending a very popular program.

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