But invested how? And in what? Do you mean in the stock market? Bond market?
The retirement accounts of government agencies routinely loan money to the rest of the government at interest. Apparently SS has been doing the same since it started.
“AND charged you the interest they will have to pay on the borrowed money,”
I don’t see how that part of your analogy holds up. How are you being charged interest by the SS Administration? When SS has excess funds they loan it out at interest. I don’t see where a mechanism even exists where you could be charged interest if they wanted to do it.
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The money to pay off the loan interest has to come from somewhere- countries aren’t loaning us the money free of interest that I know of? I had a national review online link describing the investing that was supposed to happen and why it was a good idea- but can’t find it now- I’ll see if I can find it again- It’s more than I can comment on-
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That isn’t how it was supposed to be designed- it was supposed to go into investments, not into bonds which make it immediately available for the government to ‘borrow’ from