Unless someone makes them do so.

And no one will make these thieves pay.

The best sociopaths don't break the law, they make the law.

the Trust Fund over to them. Never stop following the money.

the social security trust is invested in government debt

money = government debt. if they printed trillions of dollar bills that is exactly the same as trillions if t notes or ee bonds. or whichever antique machine running 8" tape issued by the federal reserve and representing government debt.

"The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled. " John Kenneth Galbraith,

The federal government borrows money from Social Security's asset reserves. The Social Security Administration (SSA) invests the money in Treasury securities, which are backed by the U.S. government. The government borrows money from Social Security by selling these securities, and it pays interest on the amount borrowed.

Social Security's funding and payouts are separate from the federal government's General Fund. The Treasury uses cash from Social Security and other sources to pay the government's bills before borrowing more money.

The U.S. government has never defaulted on its obligations, has never failed to make an interest payment and investors consider U.S. government securities to be one of the world's safest investments. Up until the Nazi fascists took over.

Pay it back? Congress wants to steal every dime from Social Security and give to their billionaire dollar donners.

exceed SS income.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/trsum/

To be returned.

The other issue is they don’t want to pay the tax on their entire income. The way us peasants are required.
Lift the cap. Problem solved.

needs for whatever purposes it needs it for, as it always has.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/trsum/

Peace out!

saying lifting the cap won't completely resolve the imbalance. You have provided a linkless assertion of opinion as fact.

I’m done responding.

Another linkless assertion of opinion as facts. The only people who say lifting the cap will completely solve the problem are message board randos.

Edited to add - whether or not lifting the cap completely solves the problem or not is a minor issue anyway -- at worst, lifting the cap will extend the solvency date for a long time.

The more serious misinformation is:

don't pay SS. SS is only collected on WAGES and they make all their money with investments, and their so-called "investment income" is not considered "wages".

Simply put.......Our Government is the best money can buy.....and the Republican Party and our soon to be President, AND the members of the House and Senate are the epitome of that fact...........

Or you can do a little digging on line and understand that the real process is. Please stop posting this false information. There are real issues that need to be addressed with SS and flooding the internet with false information makes it harder to get it fixed.

Some people shamelessly mislead their fellow progressives.

Rec

Those notes are interest paying and are redeemed as needed to cover any deficit in current benefit payments.

It is simply a myth that somehow Congress spent the ss trust fund.

Do a lot of things. Guess what, though? It might do them if Democrats could get and hold strong majorities in both houses of Congress, as well as getting and holding the White House. But we don't have either of those things. So, we aren't going to be able to get Congress to do any damned thing. We can yell and scream and kick our heels on the ground, but as long as Congress and the White House are in Republican hands, we ain't gonna get what we want.

So, that's the consequence of failing to win elections. It sucks. We should do better about that, I think.

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https://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/assets.html





https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4a3.html

This shows income, costs, assets and change in asset balances.

In the early 1980s the Social Security Trust Funds had developed short-term cash flow problems, as a result of the adverse performance of the economy during the "stagflation" of the 1970s. As a stop-gap measure, Congress passed legislation in 1981 to permit inter-fund borrowing among the three Trust Funds (the Old-Age and Survivors Trust Fund; the Disability Trust Fund; and the Medicare Trust Fund). This authority was to lapse at the end of 1982. However, the 1983 Amendments extended the inter-fund borrowing authority to the end of 1987. Under the law as amended, all loans would have to be repaid by the end of 1989.

The inter-fund loans were required to be repaid with an amount of interest equal to that which the loaning fund would have earned had it had use of the money during this time. In other words, the borrowing fund was required to make the loaning fund whole at the end of the process.

This authority was used twice, once in November 1982 and once in December 1982. The total amount borrowed was $17.5 billion. The Old-Age and Survivors Trust Fund borrowed the money-$5.1 billion from the Disability Trust Fund and $12.4 billion from the Medicare Trust Fund. Repayment began in 1985 and the debt to the Medicare Trust Fund was paid off by January 1986 and the debt to the Disability Trust Fund was liquidated in April 1986.
Larry DeWitt
SSA Historian's Office
12/17/98
https://www.ssa.gov/history/interfundnote.html