40% of the profits of the S&P 500 are from outside the USA. And, those profits, in dollars, go up if the US dollar weakens”. Even “US” investments aren’t as US as people think.
Social Security is the least of our troubles. At least it is a tax that mostly pays for the benefit it is for. Even when the “trust fund” is off the books in a few years, SS will be running a deficit of only about 20% and will be less than 10% of our total budget deficit, which will be something like 2.5 trillion per year at that point. We’ll be spending more on interest payments on debt that had nothing to do with social security, than on SS payments themselves. Objectively, the slow burn of the SS shortfall is the least destructive fiscal fire we have. But, rest assured, at the last minute, congress will come together and come up with the least equitable solution possible and “solve” the shortfall. Some of us (likely most on this forum) will get substantially reduced benefits and/or higher taxes, and others won’t see any impact at all.
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40% of the profits of the S&P 500 are from outside the USA. And, those profits, in dollars, go up if the US dollar weakens”. Even “US” investments aren’t as US as people think.
Post: Sell America
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Social Security is the least of our troubles. At least it is a tax that mostly pays for the benefit it is for. Even when the “trust fund” is off the books in a few years, SS will be running a deficit of only about 20% and will be less than 10% of our total budget deficit, which will be something like 2.5 trillion per year at that point. We’ll be spending more on interest payments on debt that had nothing to do with social security, than on SS payments themselves. Objectively, the slow burn of the SS shortfall is the least destructive fiscal fire we have. But, rest assured, at the last minute, congress will come together and come up with the least equitable solution possible and “solve” the shortfall. Some of us (likely most on this forum) will get substantially reduced benefits and/or higher taxes, and others won’t see any impact at all.
Post: Social Security is not going bankrupt, but that is not the full story
Link to comment from January 27, 2026