[lbo-talk] ss surplus by year

Max B. Sawicky sawicky at bellatlantic.net
Sat Feb 5 14:51:56 PST 2005


You want the "off-budget surplus" in the Budget book, "Historical Statistics," page 21, Table 1-1,

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2005/pdf/hist.pdf

-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 5:38 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] ss surplus by year

W. Kiernan wrote:


>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>.

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