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To: Farmboy who wrote (13190)	3/20/2012 10:11:41 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

True, it's a constant practice now. Not just now, from the moment there was any SS "surplus". Anytime SS taxes have brought in more than SS spending, the difference has been spent on other things, not saved somewhere. Actually when I think of it, it isn't happening now, since we are running a SS "deficit" , so all the money from SS taxes (+ some more) goes to make SS payments. both surplus and deficit in quotes because the only real surplus or deficit is for the whole government, having a tax called the social security tax doesn't mean SS is somehow free, the tax is just how we pay for it (or now most of it)