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Social Security is self-financed, cannot borrow, spends less than one percent on its administrative costs, has a $2.6 trillion surplus which will continue to grow for a number of years, and is off-budget.
Sen. Don Riegle: Pay Back the Money Borrowed From Social Security Sen. Don Riegle 2011
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Social Security is self-financed, cannot borrow, spends less than one percent on its administrative costs, has a $2.6 trillion surplus which will continue to grow for a number of years, and is off-budget.
Sen. Don Riegle: Pay Back the Money Borrowed From Social Security Sen. Don Riegle 2011
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Let's take a look: "I propose that we take Social Security off-budget ..."
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Let's take a look: "I propose that we take Social Security off-budget ..."
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It's already is off-budget, if by "off-budget" Gingrich meant that it's forbidden to contribute to the national deficit.
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Most Americans want answers to why the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are off-budget items needed to be paid for later and not now!
CNN Poll: Most Americans say Palin not qualified to serve as president 2009
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A 1982 study published by James Bennett and Thomas DiLorenzo in Public Choice found that budget restrictions enacted in 32 states in the 1970s did little to reduce public spending because state and local pols simply moved billions of dollars off-budget into quasi-governmental entities, largely controlled by political appointees.
State Budget Bunk Steven Malanga 2011
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"The principal reason for the establishment of OBEs off-budget enterprises in the U.S. has been to bypass the wishes of the electorate whenever the voters express a demand for fiscal restraint," the authors noted in their groundbreaking paper.
State Budget Bunk Steven Malanga 2011
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The rest flows into the off-budget enterprises, where voter-imposed fiscal restrictions don't apply.
State Budget Bunk Steven Malanga 2011
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It's already is off-budget, if by "off-budget" Gingrich meant that it's forbidden to contribute to the national deficit.
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