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Strategies & Market Trends : Bob Brinker: Market Savant & Radio Host

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To: Bill Shepherd who wrote (4791)4/28/1998 5:11:00 PM
From: Wally Mastroly   of 42834
 
A somewhat misleading headline-"Social Security insolvency postponed"

usatoday.com

A couple of paragraphs:

...Social Security, in fact, now collects more payroll taxes than are
needed to pay benefits to Tuesday's retirees, and the surpluses are
invested in government bonds so that the money goes to finance other
federal programs.

Many Americans are skeptical about lawmakers' ability to pay back
these obligations to Social Security, plus interest, when the money is
needed for baby boomer pensions.

But Social Security's trustees take the IOU's seriously. They project
that the money will be repaid starting in 2013, when baby boom
retirements get under way and taxes paid by those left in the workforce won't be enough to cover Social Security benefits...

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