Mark Neumann: “No, it says very specifically in there that it must be budget-neutral over a 5-year period of time.”

We are now in surplus in both the general fund and in the Social Security fund. There is such good news on the economic front here.

I have added a line in this chart, a black line. And what that does is wall off this Social Security money and forces it to go into Social Security instead of into the general fund. So, now, let us talk through these surpluses one more…

the laws changed in 1983. In 1983 they increased the amount of money that was withheld from workers' paychecks because they knew the baby-boom generation was going to get to retirement. And the idea was, by increasing the amount withheld…

If we have 90 percent of the money that is coming in for Social Security over and above what we are paying back out to seniors in benefits and 90 percent of that money is set aside and 10 percent is used for tax cuts because that is the…