Originally posted by: Inigo Montoya
You hear this all the time, but I've never heard any politician say foreign aid is running out of funding.
Social Security was projected to have entered a deficit condition, meaning benefits paid out exceeded revenues paid in, between 2022 and 2024. Then those who make such projections began to account for ALL DEM FEELTHY ILLEGULS who work and pay taxes but will likely never collect benefits. Now, the projection is for 2030.
What will happen then? Either the deficit will grow or taxes will increase. Even given the current horrors of the Turd administration, there's no way that SS benefits will be cut or eligibility curtailed. MAGA might crusade to increase the age limit or something. But billionaires need not worry.
But as far as "running out of money" is concerned...no fucking way. SS will be funded one way or another. And in 2028, we'll have lots of extra cash from stripping out Trump's throne room and selling all the gold.
I'd point out how "drop in the bucket" foreign aid actually is, but other posters have done that quite well.