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It isn't? Social security is solvent assuming no funding changes until 2037.


In an accounting sense, but it will start drawing from income sources other than payroll taxes as soon as outlays exceed those incomes, which will happen a lot sooner. The trust fund is an accounting fiction, and a debt to yourself is not an asset.


"Solvent until..." is a contradiction. If you're solvent until you have to pay your bills, you're broke.


The "solvent..." part of that assertion isn't severable from the "... without changes to..." part.




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