>I was looking for a chart showing how much the difference between
>FICA receipts and SSA payouts has been on a year-by-year basis.
>This is the figure that was supposed to go negative in 1984 right
>before the working-class-only tax increase, and which is scheduled
>to go negative in 2018 or so when SSA starts redeeming the bonds in
>the SS Trust fund. (Or when the Treasury defaults on these bonds!)
>For some reason I can't find what I'm looking for by Google, even
>though I'm almost sure I've seen the exact chart before on line
>somewhere. Can anybody point me in the right direction?
The official stuff is at <http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/>. The CBO's stuff is at <http://www.cbo.gov/SocialSecurity.cfm>.
Doug