At its inception the Social Security Trust Fund and other trust funds were held Sacrosanct, i.e.
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Honest Bookkeeping Washington should separate the Social Security Trust Fund from the federal budget.
Despite the existence of the Social Security Trust Fund, surplus money isn't really set aside for pensions.
Well, when we get back to fiscal responsibility, we'll start paying back the Social Security Trust Fund.
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That same amount will be credited to the Social Security Trust Fund, in the form of Treasury securities.
The Social Security trust fund bonds are explicitly backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.
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And besides, they insist, the Social Security Trust fund would be made whole through transfers from the general fund.
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The commission members who opposed privatisation wanted to underpin the solvency of the Social Security trust fund by raising contribution rates.
Quite simply, because the diversion of funds to individual accounts would reduce the money available to the Social Security trust fund.
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They also projected that the Social Security Trust Fund would be exhausted in 2032, 34 years from the time of the report.
Payroll taxes were raised and a surplus generated that is placed in the Social Security Trust Fund, which invests in Treasury bonds.
The Social Security trust fund, together with payroll taxes, is sufficient to cover program benefits for more than the next 20 years.
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Federal revenues and the Social Security trust fund are far too important to depend on the fuzzy distinction between employee and independent contractor.
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On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal pointed out that the Social Security trust fund includes trillions in securities, representing past surpluses plus interest.
It will be in addition to the accumulation in the Social Security trust fund that would occur with no change in the current law.
The President's proposal would reduce the debt borrowed from the public, and deposit assets of an equal amount in the Social Security trust fund.
Social Security payments are not entitlements: they are obligations to the people who paid the surpluses into the Social Security Trust Fund since 1983.
But what if funds borrowed to pay back the Social Security Trust Fund came at least in part from the Federal Reserve through Quantitative Easing?
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The 7.65% Solution has several other intriguing aspects, including the setting up of a genuine Social Security trust fund that could invest monies in corporate bonds.
The public also prefers Clinton's overall approach to the budget negotiations and trusts Clinton more than the GOP to handle the Social Security trust fund responsibly.
Number one is that the Social Security trust fund -- there wasn't a fence around it so people started borrowing out of it for other things.
Mr Clinton also added that the Social Security trust fund should be bolstered from general revenues by the amount of interest that this debt paydown had saved.
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But Messrs Feldstein and Samwick also assume that the Social Security trust fund will be allowed to go into debt for about 20 of the next 75 years.
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Congress spent these surpluses, and the U.S. Treasury issued the Social Security Trust Fund special bonds, which can be redeemed whenever the Social Security system has a current account deficit.
The Social Security trust fund will technically cover any shortfall for another 20 years or so, but then benefits would have to fall by about one-quarter to match outlays with revenues.
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In effect, Congress would still have to borrow more money to make up the shortfall only it would borrow it for the general fund rather than the Social Security trust fund.
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We need to start once again respecting the Social Security Trust Fund and beginning to bring our troops home from Iraq so that we will have those resources to spend here at home.
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What, then, you may ask, is the Social Security Trust Fund, the pool of money that people say will dry up and make it impossible for anyone to receive their Social Security payments?
Once George Bush came in and we went back to deficit spending, the last six and a half years what we've seen is a decrease in the life of the Social Security Trust Fund to 2041.
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And while the village comprised of Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security is being trashed, the Republicans will use the savings to reduce corporate and personal income taxes at the top brackets and sack the Social Security Trust Fund.
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