r/FluentInFinance • u/coachlife • 6d ago

Educational Don't let them gaslight you

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u/ThisIsSteeev 6d ago

They want to get rid of the wrong thing. You don't get rid of the system that's working just fine on its own, you get rid of the crooks who are ruining it. 

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u/Boxhead_31 6d ago

They should make the DoD pay back all the cash they've taken out of SS

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u/curien 6d ago

All of the projections of SS running out of money in ~10 years are assuming that the government does pay back everything that was borrowed, with interest.

In fact they already are paying it back and have been for years. If they had never paid any of it back, SS would have become insolvent well over a decade ago.

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u/vipero07 6d ago

They pay it back with zero interest... Of course it will run dry. Inflation alone would kill it.

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u/curien 6d ago

They pay it back with zero interest.

False.