On Sat, 2 Mar 2013 21:40:01 -0500 Shane Mage <[email protected]> wrote:
> I despair. Me too. There *is* no Social Security trust fund. It's an accountant's fiction. The Gummint takes is so much every year, and spends so much every year, and covers the difference by creating money. So the only interesting questions are (in descending order of importance): 1) What is the money spent on? (Wars, pensions, highways, etc.) 2) Where does it come from? (Taxes, of course. On whom? And at what level?) 3) How much money do we have to create, and at what level does that become a problem? (It's very far from being a problem now.) -- -- Michael J. Smith [email protected] http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org http://fakesprogress.blogspot.com http://cars-suck.org 'I'm not so sure about the Divisionnaire. He might just possibly have a soul. There's something unhappy about him.' 'Is that always a sign?' 'I think it is.' _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
