[rogue yam]

If you abolish SS and Medicaid you would, of course, need to refund about $6 trillion to the people you took it from and which is as yet unspent. You can't just take that money and build highways and resthomes for illegal alien workers.

The fact of the matter is the money has already been spent. You can't "give it back". It is gone. Whatever money there is in the future will be earned by future private sector workers and investors.

[muawiyah]

You sure blew that one again rogue yam. The Social Security money wasn't spent ~ it was BORROWED. See that $6 trillion on the books? That's the $6 trillion that was collected for social security that has not been spent on social security.

The government borrowed it and then took it out and spent it on prostitutes in Columbia (for one thing), and various other things ~ but it was a dedicated tax and the initial obligations remain ~ it must be spent on payments, or it must be refunded. You simply cannot write it off the books ~ or else!