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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (69534)	5/3/2018 12:36:07 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356202

The SS Trust fund is money taken out of your check for the single expressed purpose of providing retirement benefits True (or at least that and disability but close enough and it doesn't change your point), but really relevant to the specific point. The fact that its for some purpose doesn't change the fact that its all the government's money. Its another government program not something separate from the government. There may be stated purposes, political promises and legal requirements to spend one source of revenue in one place and another somewhere else. But its still all one government. The government isn't borrowing anything by moving the money around between programs. The programs or areas of government may be borrowing money. In SS's case they are (in most other cases they can't do so legally), but the government as a whole is not. The treasury (for lack of a better word) borrows money from the SS trust fund and promises to pay it back, but the government is both "the treasury", or "the rest of the government" and the SS trust fund. They are all the government.