> Social security lives in a parallel universe to the budget, so they could cancel the program entirely and it wouldn't affect the deficit. 100% true, if you'r

> Social security lives in a parallel universe to the budget, so they could cancel the program entirely and it wouldn't affect the deficit. 100% true, if you're operating in sane-world where anything makes sense. Here in insane world, my pet theory is that, given another year (maybe two, they might wait until after the midterms, assuming they hold on to congress) we're going to see an attempt to nullify the government debt owned by Social Security by converting it into some convoluted scheme involving crypto-backed-by-the-stock-market or something. Ta-da, debt reduced, deficit reduced (by the amount of interest on the debt owned by the trust fund)! Plus sooooo many opportunities to steal. This'll kill the program stone-dead, but it'll take a little while. Kinda like how they already killed Obamacare by removing the individual mandate, and they're just waiting for the death-spiral to hit bottom so they can declare the program a failure and proof that we should never try to fix healthcare in any kind of actually-decent way again.