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From the SSA Annual
Accountability Reports[1]
beginning with the 1999 report
and then picking up the
current year from each of the
subsequent reports, these are
Social Security Tax Receipts
in billions.
1994 1995 1996 1997 1998
1999 2000 2001
2002 2003
340.8 356.2 381.2 405.3 432.0
462.7 501.7 528.2
537.7 546.8
These numbers can’t possible
be true for 2001 and 2002 and
2003. The U.S. economy
had massive job loss during
that timeframe.
Every job that has been
exported, took it's tax base
with it. So not only did the
middle class person lose the
job, the government lost the
tax contribution. If you look
at the corporate profits for
the last couple of years and
the accompanying increases in
CEO pay, you'll see that the
CEO's have received staggering
increases in pay due to their
increased profits.
The maximum that any one
person pays into social
security in any one year is
6,000. The millions of people
who have lost jobs are no
longer contributing or are
contributing at a much lower
rate if they were lucky enough
to find a new job. The CEO
that received millions of
dollars in pay increases still
only pays 6,000 per year.
So how
would they falsify the
statistics? They
would use a computer program -
an economic model. With
models like this, you play
'what if' games to see what
happens - if this variable
changes or that variable
changes.
And since nobody can really
challenge them because they are
the keepers of the statistics,
they can pretty much say
whatever they want. On
economic reports where they
can't fudge the numbers, they
simply stop reporting them -
as they did with the
mass layoffs report.
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